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A colony of Mexican free-tailed bats live under the bridge and take flight at sundown all summer long.

Millions of years of erosion created the feature for which this rock formation is aptly named.

More than 25 fully functional scale replicas of famous lighthouses dot the shores of Lake Havasu.

An excursion train traverses a picturesque red-rock canyon along the Verde River.

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

This mesmerizing and surreal landscape features intricate patterns of white and red sandstone.

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

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

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

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

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

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

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

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

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

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

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

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.