Places unceremony Wants to Go

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

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

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

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

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

The largest and most well-preserved petroglyph site in the Verde Valley.

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

This mesmerizing and surreal landscape features intricate patterns of white and red sandstone.

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

What is the Thing?

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

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.