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

Some of Arizona's best spit-roasted tacos al pastor can be found at a weekend swap meet.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

Giant telescope mirrors built in a spinning furnace under a college football stadium.

An incredible airplane graveyard sits outside this small museum dedicated to preserving aviation history.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.

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

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.

Legend says train robbers stashed their gold within the depths of this unusual cave.

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

This collection of neon icons is preserving Arizona's history, one sign at a time.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.

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

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

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

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

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

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

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

What is the Thing?

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

An urban laboratory.