For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

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

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

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

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

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

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

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

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.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

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

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

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.