Places ravedog Wants to Go

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

Tour a Cold War-era U.S. military missile launch site in Anchorage.

A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

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

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

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

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

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

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

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

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

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

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

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

This open-pit mine is now an abandoned symbol of Bisbee's copper-mining heritage.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

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

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.