Places WanderingKat Wants to Go

This small hill features the most notable collection of petroglyphs in Saguaro National Park.

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

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

A lingering bit of Space Race nostalgia lies in the middle of the desert.

One man spent decades making these working scale models of antique cars.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

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

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

The wreckage of a crash that killed nine people still litters the Franklin Mountains.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

An abandoned mine serves as a stark memorial of when mercury was a valued strategic metal.

With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

Twelve decommissioned shipping containers evoke a reclining person in Marfa, Texas.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

Once called the Jersey Lilly, this former saloon was the domain of infamous Judge Roy Bean.