One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

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

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

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

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

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

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

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

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

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

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

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

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

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

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

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

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.