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Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

From working out of his garage to the James Beard semifinals, one Tucson baker has kept his fan base—and his grains—local.

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

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

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

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

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

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

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

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.