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Mexican Hat

Mexican Hat, Utah

Mexican Hat

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

Forrest Gump Point

Halchita, Utah

Forrest Gump Point

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

Arch

Kayenta, Arizona

Mystery Valley

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

Burger King Navajo Code Talkers Display.

Kayenta, Arizona

Burger King Navajo Code Talkers Display

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

From here it looks like a cave, but guess what? It's a bridge.

Pine, Arizona

Tonto Natural Bridge

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

Jerome's Sliding Jail

Jerome, Arizona

Jerome's Sliding Jail

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

Nellie Bly Kaleidoscopes

Jerome, Arizona

Nellie Bly Kaleidoscopes

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

Abandoned Jerome Post Office

Jerome, Arizona

Abandoned Jerome Post Office

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

International

Jerome, Arizona

Gold King Mine Ghost Town

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

Indian Mesa

Phoenix, Arizona

Indian Mesa

Remains of an ancient village perched on top of a remote mesa

I-17 Mystery Christmas Tree
Permanently Closed

Black Canyon City, Arizona

I-17 Mystery Christmas Tree

Every year, festive decorations appear on this juniper tree located in the median strip of a busy highway.

Granite Dells

Prescott, Arizona

Granite Dells

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

The Palace Saloon

Prescott, Arizona

The Palace Saloon

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

The Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial.

Yarnell, Arizona

Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial

The stone circle honors the 19 firemen who perished during the Yarnell Hill Fire.

Vulture City Ghost Town

Wickenburg, Arizona

Vulture City Ghost Town

Vulture Mine was Arizona’s most productive gold mine, and instrumental to the development of Phoenix.

White Tank Mountains Petroglyphs

Waddell, Arizona

White Tank Mountains Petroglyphs

These petroglyphs created by ancient Arizonians have withstood centuries of exposure to the elements.

Hobo Joe

Buckeye, Arizona

Hobo Joe

A giant mascot, a car bomb, and the mafia mingle in the history of a defunct restaurant chain.

Palo Verde Energy Educational Center

Buckeye, Arizona

Palo Verde Energy Educational Center

Get up close to a life-sized model of a spent-fuel dry cask and learn how Arizona’s largest power plant operates in a desert.

Phoenix Trotting Park
Permanently Closed

Goodyear, Arizona

Phoenix Trotting Park

This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.

Havasupai Falls

Supai, Arizona

Havasupai Falls

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Guarded by attack dog
Permanently Closed

Peach Springs, Arizona

Grand Canyon Caverns Underground Suite

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

Caverns Grotto

Peach Springs, Arizona

Caverns Grotto

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

Wind Point replica lighthouse

Lake Havasu City, Arizona

Lake Havasu Lighthouses

More than 25 fully functional scale replicas of famous lighthouses dot the shores of Lake Havasu.

Lake Havasu's London Bridge

Lake Havasu City, Arizona

Lake Havasu's London Bridge

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

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