In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A historic hydroelectric power plant serves as the unusual backdrop for a public park.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

Millions of years of erosion created the feature for which this rock formation is aptly named.

In 1975, a forestry worker in Arizona claimed to have been abducted by a UFO.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

Inside this small museum resides a strange mix of miniature collections passed down over time.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.