Places lkclancey Wants to Go

The last such cabin in Arizona is a rare remnant of a bygone era of medical treatment.

This 39-foot-tall version of a Hopi figure stands in Arizona.

The first steel dam in the world and the only one still functional in the United States.

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

This remote desert watering hole has a connection to a curious chapter of American history.

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

A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.

This historic pink parlor keeps Phoenicians cool with homemade, retro ice creams.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

This rural museum is home to more than 50 local desert reptiles and the world's largest snake bite kit collection.

A short interpretive trail about one of the first human cultures in North America.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

An assortment of armored tanks and Howitzer cannons in the middle of the Sonoran Desert.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

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