Places nlcrocker Wants to Go

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

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

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

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

A collection of beautiful crystals shaped like freshly plucked roses.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

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

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

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

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

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

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

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.