The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.

Once a year, at exactly 11:11 a.m., this monument comes to life.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

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

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

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

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