A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

This outdoor observatory offers stellar views and a scale model of our solar system.

Inside this garden, visitors are offered a glimpse into how inhabitants of the region survived centuries ago.

Inside this store, a mysterious statue draws visitors from the world over.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

The largest and most well-preserved petroglyph site in the Verde Valley.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

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.

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

The final resting place of the businessman-turned-astronomer who helped discover Pluto stands near his observatory.

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

A replica of the flagpole that gave a frontier town its name.

Crafted in 1911, this steam locomotive spent its entire working life in Flagstaff.

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

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

The remnants of a creative early method of wildfire prevention.

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

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

The largest mural in the world painted by a single artist.