Denver, Colorado
Mayan Theatre
One of three remaining theatres in the United States created in the Art Deco Mayan Revival style.
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Denver, Colorado
One of three remaining theatres in the United States created in the Art Deco Mayan Revival style.
Aguilar, Colorado
A short tunnel built straight through a magmatic dike.
Durango, Colorado
This bee-themed family business does more with honey than anyone would think was possible.
Tucson, Arizona
During World War II this was the site of an "honor camp" used as a prison for draft dodgers, Native American conscientious objectors, and Japanese-Americans—including a man who brought his case against the camp to the Supreme Court.
Tucson, Arizona
A living museum of curated gardens honors 4,000 years of agriculture in the Santa Cruz River basin.
Camp Verde, Arizona
This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.
Camp Verde, Arizona
This comprehensive collection features Native American artifacts dating back centuries.
Clarkdale, Arizona
The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.
Jerome, Arizona
A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.
Yavapai County, Arizona
Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.
Rimrock, Arizona
This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water
Flagstaff, Arizona
Crafted in 1911, this steam locomotive spent its entire working life in Flagstaff.
Flagstaff, Arizona
Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.
Tucson, Arizona
This quiet chapel was central to a community of settlers who reclaimed an abandoned fort.
Holbrook, Arizona
This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.
Mayer, Arizona
An urban laboratory.
Holbrook, Arizona
One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.
Holbrook, Arizona
This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.
Winslow, Arizona
This memorial includes fragments from one of the greatest tragedies in United States history.
Farmington, New Mexico
Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.
Bloomfield, New Mexico
The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.
Kemmerer, Wyoming
One of America's largest retail chains got its start in one of its most remote rural destinations.
Bisbee, Arizona
This Old West hotel, the longest in continuous operation in the state of Arizona, is claimed to be haunted.
Tucson, Arizona
First Joe Pagac sculpture; sculpture reflects native Tucson wildlife in an urban setting.