Outsider Art Community.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

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

This quiet chapel was central to a community of settlers who reclaimed an abandoned fort.

This unique competition celebrates an American Indian and Canadian First Nation cultural tradition.

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

The eroded core of an ancient volcano is now accessible by a short hike.

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 motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

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

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.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

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

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

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

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

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

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

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.