New Mexico
Trinity Atomic Bomb Site
Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.
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New Mexico
Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Roswell, New Mexico
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.
Phoenix, Arizona
A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.
Picacho, Arizona
Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.
Tucson, Arizona
A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.
Chandler, Arizona
A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.
Phoenix, Arizona
The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.
Winslow, Arizona
One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.
Quartzsite, Arizona
This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.
Wickenburg, Arizona
Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.
Phoenix, Arizona
The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.
Green Valley, Arizona
After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.
Tucson, Arizona
Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.
Chandler, Arizona
Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.
Bisbee, Arizona
Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.
Jerome, Arizona
A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.
Kykotsmovi Village, Arizona
This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.
Sells, Arizona
The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.
Phoenix, Arizona
A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.
Flagstaff, Arizona
A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.