Crafted in 1911, this steam locomotive spent its entire working life in Flagstaff.

This 1930s log cabin began as a taxidermy museum but is now a popular country music venue.

A replica of the flagpole that gave a frontier town its name.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

This memorial includes fragments from one of the greatest tragedies in United States history.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

A tribute to the beloved, kind-hearted "homeless mayor" of Silver Spring.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The location where the famed author and abolitionist began his journey to freedom.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

Hidden within an idyllic suburban garden is a memorial dedicated to the victims of a terrifying spree of killings committed on U.S. soil.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.