A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

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

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

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

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 working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

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

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

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

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

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

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

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

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

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

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

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