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This collection of neon icons is preserving Arizona's history, one sign at a time.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

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

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

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

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

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

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

What is the Thing?

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

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

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

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

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

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

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

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

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

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

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.