Places pennylemonade Wants to Go

This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

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

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

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

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

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

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

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

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

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

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

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

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

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

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

What is the Thing?

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

Every Sunday, this Thai temple in Berkeley serves a backyard brunch.