The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

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

The remains of this rugged homestead ranch offer a brief glimpse into a bygone era.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

Some of Arizona's best spit-roasted tacos al pastor can be found at a weekend swap meet.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.

The first Protestant church in Arizona and only Gothic Revival style adobe church in the world.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

The smallest country in the world.

Ruins of the original wooden flume that carried water to Virginia City are still visible high on the Virginia Range.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

An early 20th-century fire lookout, still in intermittent use, preserves legacy fire-locating equipment.