This vast and otherworldly landscape is one of the largest dune complexes in North America.

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

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

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

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

This 1930s log cabin began as a taxidermy museum but is now a popular country music venue.

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

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

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

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

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

This historic pink parlor keeps Phoenicians cool with homemade, retro ice creams.

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

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.

A kaleidoscope gallery and steampunk emporium named for a pioneering journalist.

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