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Although now a decaying ruin, this stone cabin's history includes several notable figures.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

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

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

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

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

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

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

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

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

The eroded core of an ancient volcano is now accessible by a short hike.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.