Places Smurphinator Wants to Go

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

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

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

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

Outsider Art Community.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

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

An urban laboratory.

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

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

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

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

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

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

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

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.