A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

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

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

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

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

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

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

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

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.