Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

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

The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.

Giant telescope mirrors built in a spinning furnace under a college football stadium.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

The historic “pink house on the hill” is an architectural gem that now serves as a center for water conservation.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

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

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

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

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

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

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

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