Places micheleshreeve Wants to Go

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

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

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

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

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

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

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

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

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

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