Places shurtemi21 Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

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

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

What is the Thing?

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

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

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

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

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.