The L. Ron Hubbard House on Camelback, Phoenix

While the ranch-style homes along the border of Phoenix and Paradise Valley and been demolished to put up McMansions, another project went in a remarkably different direction. In 1952, science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, who had recently penned Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health , was living in the shadow of Camelback Mountain. It was in this humble little ranch-style house out in what was then the desert outside of town, L. Ron Hubbard founded Scientology. Through extensive research, with meticulous attention paid to the smallest details, the house was restored to full historical accuracy by the Friends of L. Ron Hubbard Foundation and the Church of Scientology International. The L. Ron Hubbard House on Camelback is now a superb house museum inside a phenomenal restoration where one can truly walk in Ron’s footsteps.