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An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

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

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

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

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

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

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Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

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

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

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

An urban laboratory.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

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

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.