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The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

Explore this unspoiled peninsula with 11 sandy beaches and 13 miles of hiking and biking trails (keep an eye out for soaring bald eagles overhead).

Fuel up on comfort food favorites at this local gem that’s also a national landmark.

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

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

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

Originally conceived as part of a proposed Arizona State Capitol building in the 1950s, this structure built in 2004 stands as a monument to the architect's legacy.

A maze-like landscape of globular rocks surrounding two Arizona lakes.

This Prescott institution is widely considered the oldest bar in Arizona.

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

Inside this garden, visitors are offered a glimpse into how inhabitants of the region survived centuries ago.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A kaleidoscope gallery and steampunk emporium named for a pioneering journalist.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.

An excursion train traverses a picturesque red-rock canyon along the Verde River.

The largest and most well-preserved petroglyph site in the Verde Valley.

This historic pink parlor keeps Phoenicians cool with homemade, retro ice creams.

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

The United States' first transcontinental automobile road came to its end at this spot in San Francisco's Lincoln Park.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.