The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

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

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

Legend says train robbers stashed their gold within the depths of this unusual cave.

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

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.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

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

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

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

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

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

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

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.