Arizona
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Art Car World
Douglas, Arizona
Famous and infamous vehicles preserved by Art Car guru Harrod Blank -- Camera Van, Land Yacht, MondrianMobile...
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The Thing
Dragoon, Arizona
America's most purposefully mysterious tourist attraction beckons the freeway-fatigued in empty southeastern Arizona. What is it? We won't tell.
Wigwam Village Motel No. 6
Holbrook, Arizona
It's like traveling back to 1950 when you snooze in concrete teepee motel comfort at this Route 66 landmark.
Goldfield Ghost Town
Apache Junction, Arizona
Gunfights and raucous old west fun are the norm at a replica 1890s ghost town, based on the mining boom version of Goldfield.
Casa Grande Ruins
Coolidge, Arizona
WPA giant metal umbrella protects a four-story, crumbling 800-year-old Indian building. The mud structure's original purpose remains a mystery.
Lumberjack Muffler Man - Outside: World's First?
Flagstaff, Arizona
Stands on the grounds outside the Skydome arena, and was briefly seen in the 1960s film "Easy Rider."
Titan Missile Museum
Green Valley, Arizona
An important Atomic Tour sight -- a fully restored missile base, relic of the Cold War.
Stewart's Petrified Wood
Holbrook, Arizona
Home-built human-chomping dinosaurs out front lure passing motorists -- and there's petrified wood for sale.
Rainbow Rock Shop Dinosaurs
Holbrook, Arizona
A packed gathering of brightly painted, homemade prehistoric creatures just off of Route 66. Highest dino density per square foot.
London Bridge
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
The real 950-ft. long bridge moved at great expense from England. Piranha 3D was filmed here in 2009.
Neon Diving Lady: Starlite Motel
Mesa, Arizona
70 ft. tall sign built in 1960: a blonde in swimsuit takes an endless 3-part plunge in neon. Felled by a wind storm in 2010; in 2013 fans chipped in to save the lady.
Living Ghost Town: Burros and Gunfights
Oatman, Arizona
Chaotic Old West street of wandering burros and free gunfights.
Biosphere 2
Oracle, Arizona
Tour the hi-tech sealed facility that was supposed to prepare its inhabitants for post-atomic-war survival, or possibly life on Mars.
Grand Canyon Caverns
Peach Springs, Arizona
Outdoor dinosaurs lure travelers along desolate Route 66 to a cave with its own elevator and Civil Defense leftovers.
Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch
Picacho, Arizona
Just the thought of an Ostrich Ranch is weird, but the Cogburns have made the real thing weirder. Be ready to get kissed by a goat, but don't try to kiss an ostrich.
Bird Cage Theater Museum
Tombstone, Arizona
Perfectly preserved whoring and party hub of 19th century Tombstone. 140 visible bullet holes in its walls. Home to ghosts and a diminutive Merman.
O.K. Corral
Tombstone, Arizona
While the human performers are home asleep, animated mannequins provide a "living dead" reenactment of the famous gun battle.
Tombstone, Arizona
Tombstone, Arizona
Gunfights, prostitutes, more gunfights, and the Wild West's most iconic graveyard. And a Merman.
Pima Air & Space Museum
Tucson, Arizona
Hundreds of aircraft, spacecraft, and related exhibits. Wander the desert looking at and touching old bombers, fighters, and passenger jets.
Bedrock City and Raptor Ranch
Williams, Arizona
Arizona vacation home of The Modern Stone Age Family. Opened in 1972. New owners added birds-of-prey attraction in 2019, but kept Bedrock as well.
Elvis Presley Memorial Chapel
Apache Junction, Arizona
Before moving here, wooden church appeared in an Elvis film and survived 1969 and 2004 fires at Apacheland Movie Ranch.
Last Supper Museum
Douglas, Arizona
Collection of da Vinci's biblical dinner painting -- in slippers, cigarette butts, toy soldiers, PEZ dispensers, and Tupperware.
Lumberjack Muffler Man: Formerly Indoors
Flagstaff, Arizona
A Bunyan Muffler Man terrified visiting basketball teams by standing behind the Northern Arizona University Lumberjack's backboard. Placed in storage in 2018, moved outdoors in 2021.
Lowell Observatory
Flagstaff, Arizona
State of the art in the 1890s. Bankrolled by Percival Lowell, who believed that Mars had canals.
Historic Route 66 Museum
Kingman, Arizona
One of the better-mounted of the increasingly numerous Mother Road museums. In 2015 the "Route 66 Electric Vehicle Museum" was added to the building.
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- Amado: Building Shaped like a Longhorn Skull
- Apache Junction: Goldfield Ghost Town
- Apache Junction: Superstition Mountain Museum
- Apache Junction: Elvis Presley Memorial Chapel
- Benson: Kartchner Caverns [tips]
- Bisbee: Shady Dell RV Park and Dot's Diner [tips]
- Bisbee: Queen Mine Tour [tips]
- Buckeye: Hobo Joe Statue [tips]
- Camp Verde: Montezuma Castle Indian Ruins [tips]
- Casa Grande: Neon Sign Park [tips]
- Cool Spring: 1920s Route 66 Gas Station
- Coolidge: Casa Grande Ruins
- Douglas: Art Car World
- Douglas: Last Supper Museum
- Dragoon: The Thing
- Flagstaff: Lumberjack Muffler Man: Formerly Indoors
- Flagstaff: Lowell Observatory
- Flagstaff: Lumberjack Muffler Man - Outside: World's First?
- Flagstaff: Cliff Dwellings Overlook and Trail [tips]
- Florence: Murders, Executions, Cactus Living Room [tips]
- Florence: Pyramid Tomb of the Father of Arizona
- Goodyear: Big Baby [tips]
- Grand Canyon Village: Grand Canyon
- Grand Canyon Village: Desert View Watchtower [tips]
- Grand Canyon West: Grand Canyon Skywalk [tips]
- Green Valley: Titan Missile Museum
- Hackberry: Hackberry General Store
- Heber-Overgaard: Travis Walton's Phone Booth [tips]
- Hereford: 75-Foot-Tall Celtic Cross and 31-Foot-Tall Virgin Mary [tips]
- Holbrook: Wigwam Village Motel No. 6
- Holbrook: Stewart's Petrified Wood
- Holbrook: Wild Bill - 2.9 Million Year Old Alligator
- Holbrook: Two Homemade Dinosaurs
- Holbrook: Rainbow Rock Shop Dinosaurs
- Joseph City: Jackrabbit Trading Post
- Kayenta: Monument Valley [tips]
- Kingman: Historic Route 66 Museum
- Lake Havasu City: London Bridge
- Mammoth: Miners Memorial with Skeleton Miners [tips]
- Maricopa: Dwarf Car Museum
- Mayer: Arcosanti: An Urban Laboratory
- Mesa: Neon Diving Lady: Starlite Motel
- Oatman: Living Ghost Town: Burros and Gunfights
- Oracle: Biosphere 2
- Page: Horseshoe Bend - Super Scenic [tips]
- Peach Springs: Grand Canyon Caverns
- Phoenix: Sunnyslope Rock Garden
- Phoenix: Mystery Castle [tips]
- Phoenix: USS Arizona Anchor, Mast, Gun Barrel
- Phoenix: Muffler Man - Bunyan
- Phoenix: Release the Fear - Melted Weapons Sculpture
- Phoenix: Governor Hunt's Pyramid Tomb
- Phoenix: Don Parks - Yard of Statues and Stuff
- Phoenix: Bat Cave: Watch Bats Swarm [tips]
- Picacho: Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch
- Pomerene: Gammons Gulch - Movie Set and Museum [tips]
- Prescott: Muffler Man: Cowboy Big John
- Quartzsite: Hi Jolly's Tomb
- Quartzsite: Joanne's Gum Gallery Museum [tips]
- Safford: Space Shuttle Simulator, Large Camera Obscura [tips]
- Sahuarita: Open Pit Copper Mine Tour [tips]
- Scottsdale: Giddy-Up Daddy: Bil Keane Horsy Ride Statue
- Scottsdale: Phallic Rock [tips]
- Scottsdale: Alcor Cryonics Tour
- Seligman: Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In
- Seligman: Roadkill Cafe [tips]
- Sierra Vista: First McDonald's Drive-Thru [tips]
- Springerville: Field of Auto Part Sculptures [tips]
- Sun City: World's First Retirement Community Museum
- Tombstone: Bird Cage Theater Museum
- Tombstone: O.K. Corral
- Tombstone: Good Enough Mine
- Tombstone: Tombstone, Arizona
- Tombstone: Boot Hill
- Tombstone: Historama
- Tucson: Old Tucson: Wild West Town Movie Set
- Tucson: Glenn Stone - Muffler Man [tips]
- Tucson: Garden of Gethsemane
- Tucson: Valley of the Moon [tips]
- Tucson: Big Ed - Muffler Man [tips]
- Tucson: 25-Ton Tiki Head [tips]
- Tucson: Pima Air & Space Museum
- Tucson: Avatar 9/11 Memorial [tips]
- Tucson: Wishing Shrine of El Tiradito [tips]
- Tucson: The Goop: Mini-Golf Alien Survivor [tips]
- Tucson: Gum Chewed by John Dillinger [tips]
- Tucson: 14-Foot-Tall Cement Bird Totem [tips]
- Vail: Colossal Cave [tips]
- Walapai: Giganticus Headicus
- Williams: Bedrock City and Raptor Ranch
- Window Rock: Navajo Code Talkers Statue [tips]
- Winslow: Standin' on the Corner Park
- Winslow: Meteor Crater
- Yucca: Golf Ball House: Area 66 [tips]
- Yuma: Atomic Cannon
- Yuma: Big Wes: Muffler Man Mutant
- Yuma: Territorial Prison
- Yuma: Bridge To Nowhere
- Yuma: Castle Dome Ghost Town and Museum [tips]