Places Rick Brown Wants to Go

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

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

The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

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

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

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

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

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

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

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

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

Outsider Art Community.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

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

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

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

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

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

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

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