All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

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

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

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

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

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

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

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

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

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

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

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

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

This quiet chapel was central to a community of settlers who reclaimed an abandoned fort.

An amazing collection of model trains, collectibles, and artifacts that span the last 100 years.

Make a wish at what might be America's only Catholic shrine to a sinner.

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.