Places KR Peart Wants to Go

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

Arizona's first government hub is a rustic cabin now preserved as part of a historical museum.

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

An excursion train traverses a picturesque red-rock canyon along the Verde River.

An important piece of history from mankind's journey to the moon sits in the lobby of a government science lab.

The final resting place of the businessman-turned-astronomer who helped discover Pluto stands near his observatory.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

An amazing collection of model trains, collectibles, and artifacts that span the last 100 years.

This quiet chapel was central to a community of settlers who reclaimed an abandoned fort.

One of the largest private collections of cars manufactured by the short-lived Franklin Automobile Company.

Some 10,000 works of ancient rock art cover these volcanic basalt outcrops near the Gila River.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.

The remote resting place of a notorious Wild West outlaw whose death is shrouded in mystery.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.