A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, and other Hollywood actors have resided in this picturesque Route 66 hotel.

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

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

Giant steel and concrete dinosaurs near Route 66 invite passerbys into a mineral shop.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

This memorial includes fragments from one of the greatest tragedies in United States history.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

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

An urban laboratory.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

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

This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water

The largest and most well-preserved petroglyph site in the Verde Valley.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

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