This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

Run by members of the Tohono O'odham Nation, this community farm nurtures traditional desert cultivars.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

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

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

This open-pit mine is now an abandoned symbol of Bisbee's copper-mining heritage.

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

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

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

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

Millions of years of erosion created the feature for which this rock formation is aptly named.

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

Out of a desire to feed hungry soldiers, a franchise-altering idea was born.

This Old West hotel, the longest in continuous operation in the state of Arizona, is claimed to be haunted.

A lingering bit of Space Race nostalgia lies in the middle of the desert.

This tucked-away cemetery is the final resting place of a prospector who uncovered one of the largest gold mines in Arizona.

Once disputed as the largest sundial in the world.

This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

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

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.

The final resting place of the businessman-turned-astronomer who helped discover Pluto stands near his observatory.

A stone pillar marking the location of the westernmost battle of the American Civil War only honors one side of the conflict.