Places nicoleeellan Wants to Go

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

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

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

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

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

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

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

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

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

The wreckage of a deadly bomber plane crash can still be found near an Arizona peak.

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

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

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

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

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

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.