These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

A museum and tribute to a brave profession.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

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.

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

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

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

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

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.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

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

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

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

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

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

An urban laboratory.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

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

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

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