Places Allen Thomas Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

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

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

The current Eureka County Courthouse replaced an all-wooden structure that had previously been an ice-skating rink.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Thousands of glyphs created by an unknown culture decorate the rock formations of this canyon.

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.