One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

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

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

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.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

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

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

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

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

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