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Marble Canyon, Arizona

The Wave

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Antelope Canyon

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

Horseshoe Bend

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Havasupai Falls

This secluded aqua-blue waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole and the Havasupai tribe's best-kept secret.

Phoenix, Arizona

Yayoi Kusama Firefly Infinity Mirror Room

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

Casa Grande, Arizona

The Domes

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Winslow, Arizona

Meteor Crater

This 4,000-foot-diameter diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Phoenix, Arizona

Mystery Castle

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

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Unique
Food & Drink
in Arizona

Funeral Potatoes

A casserole of cheesy, corn flake–topped tubers offers comfort to Mormons in mourning.

Chocolate Daisy

This wildflower releases a cocoa fragrance each morning.

Blue Corn Mush

Adding juniper ash to this traditional Navajo dish gives it as much calcium as a glass of milk.

Piccadilly Raspa

Kool-Aid and pickles make this Southwestern snow cone an unforgettable flavor bomb.

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