Places nicoleeellan Wants to Go

The remains of this rugged homestead ranch offer a brief glimpse into a bygone era.

An incredible airplane graveyard sits outside this small museum dedicated to preserving aviation history.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

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

A rare wayfinding portmanteau of “Street” and “Avenue.”

Legend says train robbers stashed their gold within the depths of this unusual cave.

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

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

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

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

This ancient trail has claimed the lives of over 2,000 people.

A mistaken marker makes an erroneous claim along the historic Old Divide Road.

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

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

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

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

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

Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.