Inside this garden, visitors are offered a glimpse into how inhabitants of the region survived centuries ago.

This comprehensive collection features Native American artifacts dating back centuries.

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.

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

This Old West prison built into the side of a cliff was said to be inescapable.

Hike the unusual hoodoos and rock formations that form this little-known natural wonder.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

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

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

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

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.

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

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

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

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.

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.