This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

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

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

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

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

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

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

An urban laboratory.

What is the Thing?

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

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

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

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

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

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

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

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

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