Places shell42 Wants to Go

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.

Mexican food and folk art.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

Formerly frequented by Hollywood stars and now open for tours.

The wreckage of a deadly bomber plane crash can still be found near an Arizona peak.

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

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

An urban laboratory.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

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

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.