Places posturethecat Wants to Go

Run by members of the Tohono O'odham Nation, this community farm nurtures traditional desert cultivars.

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

This oasis-like spring in the Sonoran Desert is home to unique, endangered species.

This mesmerizing and surreal landscape features intricate patterns of white and red sandstone.

Some of Arizona's best spit-roasted tacos al pastor can be found here.

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

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

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

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

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

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

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

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

What is the Thing?

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

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

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

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

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