The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

The historic “pink house on the hill” is an architectural gem that now serves as a center for water conservation.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

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

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

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

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

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.

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

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

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

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