Places mariska135mm Wants to Go

The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.

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

One of the largest open-pit copper mining operations in the entire country.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

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

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

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

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

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

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

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

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

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

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

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

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.