Places rubysage Wants to Go

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

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

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

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

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

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

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

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

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

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

An icy behemoth that towers over you with a blue ice cave in the winter and a roaring creek in the summer.

The only house built with a turret, crenellations, and a moat in Palmer, Alaska.

The simple log cabin of a famed loner and naturalist stands preserved as a symbol of the ultimate DIY lifestyle.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.