Places Sturgeon Wants to Go

Stock up on all your horror paraphernalia at this year-round Halloween emporium.

A giant mascot, a car bomb, and the mafia mingle in the history of a defunct restaurant chain.

A stone pillar commemorates the surrender of the extraordinary Apache leader.

This 1930s log cabin began as a taxidermy museum but is now a popular country music venue.

A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

Make a wish at what might be America's only Catholic shrine to a sinner.

Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.

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

The remote resting place of a notorious Wild West outlaw whose death is shrouded in mystery.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.

Once a year, at exactly 11:11 a.m., this monument comes to life.

This Old West prison built into the side of a cliff was said to be inescapable.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

Some of Arizona's best spit-roasted tacos al pastor can be found here.

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

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

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

From working out of his garage to the James Beard semifinals, one Tucson baker has kept his fan base—and his grains—local.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.