Arizona's first government hub is a rustic cabin now preserved as part of a historical museum.

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

The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.

This Old West prison built into the side of a cliff was said to be inescapable.

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

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

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

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

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

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

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

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

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

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

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

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

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

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

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

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

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

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

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

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