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An assortment of armored tanks and Howitzer cannons in the middle of the Sonoran Desert.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

Out of a desire to feed hungry soldiers, a franchise-altering idea was born.

This 39-foot-tall version of a Hopi figure stands in Arizona.

The former home of the army detachment that captured Geronimo.

This fireplace-turned-monument pays tribute to the assassinated U.S. president.

The "Father of Arizona" tried to build a Zoroastrian fire temple on the hill where he's now buried.

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

The exit of the largest prisoner-of-war escape attempt on American soil during World War II.

A historic jail preserves etchings from over a century of incarcerated people in a town with a rough and tumble past.

This small memorial is dedicated to the Perryville State Prison firefighters who perished fighting the Dude Fire in 1990.

At 11,500 feet in elevation, there is no toilet in the state closer to the sky than this one.

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An early 20th-century jail not far from the infamous Tombstone, Arizona.

This unique art installation used boiler tubes from a decommissioned power plant to resemble Antelope Canyon.

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

The handsome statue is a tribute to the post riders who traversed 52 miles of tough Arizona terrain.

Once disputed as the largest sundial in the world.

The Grand Canyon’s original airport, which once welcomed pilots like Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, lies abandoned.

This love letter to Poland serves bracing dill pickle soup and plump pierogis.

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

A 1930’s courtroom where John Dillinger and his gang went before a judge.

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

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