A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

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

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

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

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."

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

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

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

What is the Thing?

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.