Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

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

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

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

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

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

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

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

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

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

An off-the-beaten path cave with an underground lake.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

The historic “pink house on the hill” is an architectural gem that now serves as a center for water conservation.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.