These elusive, isolated rodents evolved into a distinct, locally iconic subspecies.

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.

Although now a decaying ruin, this stone cabin's history includes several notable figures.

This 1930s log cabin began as a taxidermy museum but is now a popular country music venue.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

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

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

Crafted in 1911, this steam locomotive spent its entire working life in Flagstaff.

A replica of the flagpole that gave a frontier town its name.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

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

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

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

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

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."