Black Canyon City, Arizona
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Every year, festive decorations appear on this juniper tree located in the median strip of a busy highway.
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Black Canyon City, Arizona
Every year, festive decorations appear on this juniper tree located in the median strip of a busy highway.
Williams, Arizona
A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.
Kingman, Arizona
Don't blink or you'll miss it.
Tucson, Arizona
In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.
Phoenix, Arizona
This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.
Littlefield, Arizona
An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.
Peach Springs, Arizona
In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.
Tempe, Arizona
The historic “pink house on the hill” is an architectural gem that now serves as a center for water conservation.
Phoenix, Arizona
This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.
Phoenix, Arizona
In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.
Phoenix, Arizona
Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.
Sacramento, California
At this 1940s-era neighborhood favorite, you can still drink a cherry phosphate.
Sacramento, California
The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.
San Francisco, California
This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.
San Francisco, California
One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.
San Francisco, California
Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.
Washoe County, Nevada
Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.
Cisco, Utah
Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.
Monroe, Utah
One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.
Boulder, Colorado
This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.
Aspen, Colorado
An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.
Aspen, Colorado
Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."
Alamosa, Colorado
When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.
Cañon City, Colorado
The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.