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This remote camping site offers incredible stargazing opportunities.

Some of Arizona's best spit-roasted tacos al pastor can be found here.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

More than a century old, this trading post resides in the Navajo Nation.

A living museum of curated gardens honors 4,000 years of agriculture in the Santa Cruz River basin.

Hikers and walkers flock to this historic volcanic butte for its scenic desert views.

The remains of this rugged homestead ranch offer a brief glimpse into a bygone era.

Make a wish at what might be America's only Catholic shrine to a sinner.

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

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

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

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

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

An incredible airplane graveyard sits outside this small museum dedicated to preserving aviation history.

Grown from a seed that went to the moon!

Enormous photography collection housed in a study center co-founded by Ansel Adams.

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

This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.

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

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

This Old West prison built into the side of a cliff was said to be inescapable.

This quiet chapel was central to a community of settlers who reclaimed an abandoned fort.