These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

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

Once a year, at exactly 11:11 a.m., this monument comes to life.

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

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

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

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

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

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

What is the Thing?

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

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

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

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

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

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

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."

This mountain tram provides stunning views while hanging from a single, steel thread.