Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

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

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

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

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

Although now a decaying ruin, this stone cabin's history includes several notable figures.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

This love letter to Poland serves bracing dill pickle soup and plump pierogis.

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

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

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

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

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

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

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

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

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.