Places Klyse Wants to Go

This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.

The eroded core of an ancient volcano is now accessible by a short hike.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

This collection of neon icons is preserving Arizona's history, one sign at a time.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.