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Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

One of the largest private collections of cars manufactured by the short-lived Franklin Automobile Company.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.

An amazing collection of model trains, collectibles, and artifacts that span the last 100 years.

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

This small hill features the most notable collection of petroglyphs in Saguaro National Park.

A lingering bit of Space Race nostalgia lies in the middle of the desert.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

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

A fantastic resource for information on both Route 66 and the local area.

Commercial aircraft storage facility, where you can see a TWA 747.

This small museum is dedicated to the study of coprolites, or fossilized poop.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Vulture Mine was Arizona’s most productive gold mine, and instrumental to the development of Phoenix.

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

One man spent decades making these working scale models of antique cars.

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

A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.