This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

Once disputed as the largest sundial in the world.

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

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

Built for an exposition in 1915, these horticultural displays have stood the test of time.

A hidden courtyard houses early 20th-century plaster masterpieces.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

This 75-year-old Shakespearean sculpture is painted by a local artist for every season.

A very tiny church, bisected by a now-dead oak tree and marooned in the middle of a shopping center parking lot.

Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

One of the largest private collections of cars manufactured by the short-lived Franklin Automobile Company.

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

This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

A replica of the flagpole that gave a frontier town its name.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

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