Places nraeanderson Wants to Go

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

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

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

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

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

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

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

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

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.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

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

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

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

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

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

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

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

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

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