Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

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

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

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

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

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

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

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.

What is the Thing?

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

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

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

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

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.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.