Holbrook, Arizona
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For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.
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Holbrook, Arizona
For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.
Glendale, Arizona
This love letter to Poland serves bracing dill pickle soup and plump pierogis.
Clarkdale, Arizona
The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.
Winslow, Arizona
This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.
Oracle, Arizona
A reproduction of earth's many biomes.
Holbrook, Arizona
See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.
Orient, New York
Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
This is one really big nut.
Williams, Arizona
This small museum is dedicated to the study of coprolites, or fossilized poop.
Williams, Arizona
Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.
Holbrook, Arizona
This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.
Utah
The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.
Morro Bay, California
A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.
Fort Valley, Arizona
At 11,500 feet in elevation, there is no toilet in the state closer to the sky than this one.
Bisbee, Arizona
This open-pit mine is now an abandoned symbol of Bisbee's copper-mining heritage.
Douglas, Arizona
The lobby of this hotel near the U.S.-Mexico border features a stained-glass mural that measures 42 feet long and 6 feet tall.
Clarkdale, Arizona
An excursion train traverses a picturesque red-rock canyon along the Verde River.
Chandler, Arizona
Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
El Prado, New Mexico
These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.
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.
Sandia Park, New Mexico
"I did this all while you were watching TV."