A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

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

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

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

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

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

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

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

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

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

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

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

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

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

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

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

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

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland which were used to align spy satellites.

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.