Arizona Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Arizona. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Flagstaff | Holbrook | Phoenix | Tombstone | Tucson
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Ajo: Jet Target on Bombing Range - Ajo: Night of the Lepus, Singing Cactus Mural
- Amado: Building Shaped like a Longhorn Skull
- Anthem: Solar Veterans Memorial
- Apache Junction: Elvis Presley Memorial Chapel
- Apache Junction: Goldfield Ghost Town
- Apache Junction: Lost Dutchman Monument
- Apache Junction: Superstition Mountain Museum
- Apache: Geronimo Surrender Monument
- Bagdad: Copper Rod Miners
- Bellemont: Easy Rider Anti-Hippie Campground
- Benson: Dinosaur at McDonald's
- Benson: Kartchner Caverns
- Bisbee: Queen Mine Tour
- Bisbee: Shady Dell RV Park and Dot's Diner
- Bisbee: Virile Copper Miner Statue
- Blue: Arrow Tree
- Bouse: Secret Armored Military Tribute
- Bowie: Birthplace of Rambo Mural
- Bowie: Earth Traveler Signpost
- Bowie: Teepee-Shaped Building, Former Teepee Cafe
- Buckeye: Hobo Joe Statue
- Bullhead City: Finger Rock
- Bullhead City: Poki, the World's Largest Desert Tortoise
- Camp Verde: Montezuma Castle Indian Ruins
- Camp Verde: Out of Africa Wildlife Park
- Camp Verde: World's Largest Kokopelli
- Cane Beds: UFO Docking and Teleportation Center
- Carefree: America's Largest Sundial
- Carefree: World's Tallest Kachina Doll
- Casa Grande: Corona Satellite Calibration Target
- Casa Grande: Interstate Space Capsule
- Casa Grande: Neon Sign Park
- Casa Grande: Ship-Shaped Building
- Chandler: $100,000 Tumbleweed
- Chandler: Rawhide Wild West Town
- Chandler: Tumbleweed Christmas Tree
- Chloride: Junk Art of Chloride - Metal Statues
- Chloride: Rattlesnake Head Rock
- Chloride: Roy Purcell's Rock Murals
- Clarkdale: Copper State Monument: Map of Pennies
- Clifton: Cliffside Jail
- Congress: Frog Rock
- Congress: Skull Rock
- Cool Spring: 1920s Route 66 Gas Station
- Coolidge: Casa Grande Ruins
- Cordes Junction: Mystery Christmas Tree
- Dennehotso: 420 Milepost
- Dolan Springs: Western Photo Ops
- Douglas: Last Supper Museum
- Dragoon: Rattlesnake Ranch
- Dragoon: The Thing
- Flagstaff: Bicentennial Moon Tree
- Flagstaff: Bra Tree
- Flagstaff: Cliff Dwellings Overlook and Trail
- Flagstaff: Hardware Store Totem Pole
- Flagstaff: Largest Log Cabin in Arizona
- Flagstaff: Louie the Lumberjack Statue
- Flagstaff: Lowell Observatory
- Flagstaff: Lumberjack Muffler Man - Indoors
- Flagstaff: Lumberjack Muffler Man - Outside: World's First?
- Florence: Fake Town Clock
- Florence: Murders, Executions, Cactus Living Room
- Florence: Pyramid Tomb of the Father of Arizona
- Florence: Tom Mix Died Here
- Fort McDowell: Rattlesnake Slide
- Fountain Hills: Elderly WWII Soldier Saluting Veteran's Memorial
- Fountain Hills: Horse Junk Sculpture
- Fountain Hills: World's 4th Tallest Freshwater Fountain
- Gila Bend: 9/11 Memorial - Beam
- Gila Bend: Gas Station Dinosaurs
- Gila Bend: Gila Bend Welcome Sign
- Gila Bend: Stovall's Space Age Lodge
- Gila Bend: Two Fighter Jets in the Desert
- Gilbert: Big Gopher on Roof with Hat
- Gleeson: Jail in a Ghost Town
- Globe: Concrete TeePee
- Goodyear: Big Baby
- Grand Canyon Village: Desert View Watchtower
- Grand Canyon Village: Grand Canyon
- Grand Canyon West: Grand Canyon Skywalk
- Green Valley: Titan Missile Museum
- Hackberry: Hackberry General Store
- Heber-Overgaard: Travis Walton's Phone Booth
- Hereford: 75-Foot-Tall Celtic Cross and 31-Foot-Tall Virgin Mary
- Hereford: Grave of the Radio Evangelist
- Holbrook: Alien Acres: Desert UFOs and E.T.s
- Holbrook: Cowboy on Bucking Petrified Logs
- Holbrook: Creepy 1898 Court House
- Holbrook: Highway of Dreams: Route 66
- Holbrook: Mural of the Petrified Wood Pioneer
- Holbrook: Painted Desert Indian Center
- Holbrook: Petrified Forest National Park
- Holbrook: Petrified Wood Museum: Pick Your Own
- Holbrook: Rainbow Rock Shop Dinosaurs
- Holbrook: Stewart's Petrified Wood
- Holbrook: Two Homemade Dinosaurs
- Holbrook: Wigwam Village Motel No. 6
- Holbrook: Wild Bill - 2.9 Million Year Old Alligator
- Holbrook: World's Largest Petrified Tree
- Holbrook: World's Longest Map of Route 66
- Hope: Passmore Gas Co.
- Houck: Fort Courage, Home of F Troop
- Jerome: Gold King Mine Museum - Old West Junkyard
- Jerome: Sliding Jail
- Jerome: Straddle a 1900-Foot-Deep Hole
- Joseph City: Jackrabbit Trading Post
- Kayenta: Baby Rocks
- Kayenta: Monument Valley
- Kayenta: Navajo Code Talkers Exhibit at Burger King
- Kingman: 3,333.33 Feet Above Sea Level Marker
- Kingman: Andy Devine Room
- Kingman: El Trovatore Motel: Famous Neon
- Kingman: Historic Route 66 Museum
- Kingman: Sit-on-Me Chuckwalla
- Lake Havasu City: London Bridge
- Lupton: Giant Tee Pee
- Mammoth: Miners Memorial with Skeleton Miners
- Marble Canyon: Old Cliff Dwellers Lodge
- Maricopa: Dwarf Car Museum
- Mayer: Arcosanti: An Urban Laboratory
- Mesa: Buckhorn Mineral Baths and Wildlife Museum
- Mesa: Commemorative Air Force Museum
- Mesa: Grave of Ernesto Miranda
- Mesa: Neon Diving Lady: Starlite Motel
- Mesa: Pizzeria With a Pipe Organ
- Mesa: The Phoenix Arrow
- Moen-avi: Dinosaur Tracks
- Nogales: Ghost Town of Ruby
- North Rim: Lucky Nose of Famous Bronze Burro
- Nothing: Nothing, Arizona
- Oatman: Dollar Bill Bar
- Oatman: Living Ghost Town: Burros and Gunfights
- Oracle: Biosphere 2
- Oro Valley: Big Quails with Human Toys
- Page: Big Chicken
- Page: Horseshoe Bend - Super Scenic
- Page: Pizzeria Paddle Wheeler
- Paradise Valley: Barry Goldwater Memorial
- Parker: The Desert Bar
- Patagonia: Eternally Lit Shrine
- Peach Springs: Grand Canyon Caverns
- Pearce: Grave of Johnny Ringo
- Phoenix: Arizona Falls
- Phoenix: Arizona K-9 Memorial
- Phoenix: Bat Cave: Watch Bats Swarm
- Phoenix: Big Dog Statue
- Phoenix: Cancer Survivors Park
- Phoenix: Dancing Swarm of Fireflies
- Phoenix: Don Parks - Yard of Statues and Stuff
- Phoenix: Governor Hunt's Pyramid Tomb
- Phoenix: Grasshopper Bridge
- Phoenix: Hall of Flame
- Phoenix: Hole-in-the-Rock
- Phoenix: Long Wong's Wings
- Phoenix: Lunch Break Ironworkers and Rosie the Riveter
- Phoenix: Maricopa Live Steamers Mini-Railroad
- Phoenix: Moffles - Auto Parts Man
- Phoenix: Muffler Man - Bunyan
- Phoenix: Musical Instrument Museum
- Phoenix: Mystery Castle
- Phoenix: Navajo Code Talker Statue
- Phoenix: News Chopper Crash Memorial
- Phoenix: Phoenix Police Museum
- Phoenix: Prince Tribute Mural
- Phoenix: Release the Fear - Melted Weapons Sculpture
- Phoenix: Sunnyslope Rock Garden
- Phoenix: Transparent Woman and Skeleton Bicyclist
- Phoenix: UFO Bounce Crash Site
- Phoenix: USS Arizona Anchor, Mast, Gun Barrel
- Phoenix: Vietnamese Martyrs Church
- Phoenix: Viking Statue
- Phoenix: Wall of Road Signs
- Picacho Peak: Muffler Man - Indian Remains
- Picacho: Civil War Battle Fought Here
- Picacho: Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch
- Pomerene: Gammons Gulch - Movie Set and Museum
- Poston: Japanese Internment Camp Monument
- Prescott Valley: Big Pioneer Woman Holds Headless Rattlesnake
- Prescott: Muffler Man: Cowboy Big John
- Prescott: Nixon Tuberculosis Home
- Quartzsite: Celia's Rainbow Garden
- Quartzsite: Freedom Garden Fighter Jets
- Quartzsite: Hi Jolly's Tomb
- Quartzsite: Joanne's Gum Gallery Museum
- Quartzsite: RV Park Metal Sculptures
- Quartzsite: Rock Sign For Pilots
- Quartzsite: Wheel Rim Camel
- Quartzsite: World's Largest Belt Buckle
- Queen Creek: Pork Shop Propane Tank Pig
- Safford: Silo House
- Safford: Space Shuttle Simulator, Large Camera Obscura
- Sahuarita: Open Pit Copper Mine Tour
- Scottsdale: Alcor Cryonics Tour
- Scottsdale: Frank Lloyd Wright's Spire
- Scottsdale: Giddy-Up Daddy: Bil Keane Horsy Ride Statue
- Scottsdale: Learn Your Cacti
- Scottsdale: Luxury Railroad Car Used by Hoover, FDR, Truman, and Ike
- Scottsdale: Phallic Rock
- Sedona: Coffee Pot Rock
- Sedona: Only McDonald's with Green Arches
- Sedona: Outdoor Statues, Old Signs
- Sedona: Snoopy Rock and Lucy Rock
- Sedona: UFO Night Vision Sky Tours
- Seligman: 1860 Territorial Jail
- Seligman: Angel and Vilma's Route 66 Shop
- Seligman: Burma-Shave Signs
- Seligman: Copper Cart and Route 66 Motoporium
- Seligman: Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In
- Seligman: Roadkill Cafe
- Seligman: Rusty Bolt: Dummies on the Roof
- Sells: Kitt Peak Observatory
- Show Low: Statue: How Show Low Got Its Name
- Sierra Vista: First McDonald's Drive-Thru
- Sierra Vista: Window from First McDonald's Drive-Thru
- Snowflake: Cabin Found In House That Burned Down
- Sonoita: Painted Propane Tanks
- Springerville: Field of Auto Part Sculptures
- Springerville: Madonna of the Trail
- Sun City: World's First Retirement Community Museum
- Sunflower: Shoe Tree
- Superior: World's Smallest Museum
- Tempe: AZ Route 101 Art Scene
- Tempe: Earth Thermometer
- Tempe: Three Jackrabbits
- Tempe: Upside-Down Pyramid
- Tombstone: Big Nose Kate's Saloon
- Tombstone: Bird Cage Theater Museum
- Tombstone: Boot Hill
- Tombstone: Good Enough Mine
- Tombstone: Historama
- Tombstone: Ike Clanton's Haunted Hotel
- Tombstone: O.K. Corral
- Tombstone: Tombstone Courthouse Museum
- Tombstone: Tombstone's Main Event
- Tombstone: Tombstone, Arizona
- Tombstone: World's Largest Rose Bush
- Tombstone: Wyatt Earp Statue
- Tonalea: Elephant's Feet
- Tonto Basin: Shoe Tree
- Tortilla Flat: Tortilla Flat
- Tucson: 14-Foot-Tall Cement Bird Totem
- Tucson: 25-Ton Tiki Head
- Tucson: 30-Foot-Tall Neon Cactus
- Tucson: Avatar 9/11 Memorial
- Tucson: Big Airplane Tail on the Sidewalk
- Tucson: Big Ed - Muffler Man
- Tucson: Bronze Head in Invisible Train Car
- Tucson: Cancer Survivors Plaza
- Tucson: Concrete Wine Bottle
- Tucson: El Toro, the Brave Black Bull
- Tucson: Fast Food Dinosaurs
- Tucson: Flying Saucer Mural at Auto Body Shop
- Tucson: Franklin Motor Car Museum
- Tucson: Garden of Gethsemane
- Tucson: Glenn Stone - Muffler Man
- Tucson: Gum Chewed by John Dillinger
- Tucson: Ignite Sign Art Museum
- Tucson: Invisible Horses
- Tucson: Kon Tiki
- Tucson: Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures
- Tucson: Old Tucson: Wild West Town Movie Set
- Tucson: Pancho Villa, U.S. Invader
- Tucson: Petrified Ground Sloth Dung
- Tucson: Pima Air & Space Museum
- Tucson: Pinnacle Peak Restaurant - Trail Dust Town
- Tucson: Rattlesnake Bridge
- Tucson: Roadside Glowing Cocoon
- Tucson: The Goop: Mini-Golf Alien Survivor
- Tucson: Toby the Red Griffin
- Tucson: Tucson Bowl - Cavemen and Leprechaun Bowling Art
- Tucson: Tucson Rodeo Parade Museum
- Tucson: Tucson Toro - Magic Carpet Bull
- Tucson: Valley of the Moon
- Tucson: Wishing Shrine of El Tiradito
- Tucson: Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday: Train Shootout
- Twin Arrows: Twin Arrows Trading Post - Ruins
- Two Guns: Two Guns - Route 66 Attractions In Ruins
- Vail: Colossal Cave
- Valentine: Keepers of the Wild - Route 66 Tigers
- Valle: Cowboys, Indians, Rocks
- Valle: Pyramids of Valle
- Walapai: Giganticus Headicus
- White Hills: Arizona Last Stop
- White Hills: Extreme Monster Truck Ride
- Why: Why Pyramid
- Wickenburg: Bolo Tie Museum
- Wickenburg: Giant Spurs
- Wickenburg: The Jail Tree
- Wikieup: Snoopy On A Rocket
- Wikieup: Snoopy Rock
- Willcox: Grave of Wyatt Earp's Kid Brother
- Willcox: President Garfield Fireplace
- Willcox: Railroad Dining Car BBQ
- Willcox: Singing Cowboy Rex Allen and KoKo the Horse
- Williams: Bearizona Drive-Thru Wildlife Park
- Williams: Bedrock City and Raptor Ranch
- Williams: Grand Canyon Deer Farm
- Williams: Haunted Caboose - Canyon Motel
- Williams: Pete's Route 66 Gas Station Museum
- Williams: Route 66 Zipline
- Window Rock: Navajo Code Talkers Statue
- Winslow: 30-Ft. Skinny Indian Head
- Winslow: 9-11 Remembrance Garden
- Winslow: Big Bulldog
- Winslow: Meteor Crater
- Winslow: Standin' on the Corner Park
- Winslow: Tiny Church of the Mother Road
- Yarnell: Firefighters Hotshots Memorial
- Yarnell: Shrine of St. Joseph of the Mountains
- Yucca: Golf Ball House: Area 66
- Yucca: Truck on a Pole
- Yuma: Atomic Cannon
- Yuma: Big Wes: Muffler Man Mutant
- Yuma: Bridge To Nowhere
- Yuma: Castle Dome Ghost Town and Museum
- Yuma: Chopper on a Pole
- Yuma: Roxaboxen
- Yuma: Territorial Prison
- Yuma: Tiny Church - Pause Rest Worship
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Anthem: The Metal Corral
- Apache Junction: Apacheland Movie Studio
- Benson: Skywatcher's Inn
- Bisbee: Bicycle House
- Bisbee: Renegade Studios Folk Art
- Bowie: Liberty Cafe
- Casa Grande: Mysterious Domes
- Clifton: The Cave
- Cottonwood: Towering Statue of Mago, Mother Earth Goddess
- Dos Cabezas: Frontier Relics Museum
- Elfrida: Rattlesnake Crafts
- Eloy: Family Fun World
- Estrella: Ten Million Abandoned Tires
- Flagstaff: Sacred White Buffalo Ranch
- Florence: Florence Prison Outlet Store
- Gila Bend: Metal Dinosaurs and Gila Monster
- Holbrook: Fatcat-Castoff Dinosaur
- Mesa: Monsterland Bar and Grill
- Mesa: Peek-a-Boo Jesus
- Meteor City: World's Longest Map of Route 66
- Payson: Muffler Man
- Phoenix: Bill Johnson's Big Apple BBQ
- Phoenix: Breck Shampoo Hall of Fame
- Phoenix: Louis Lee's Rock Garden
- Phoenix: Rock Food - Arizona Mining & Mineral Museum
- Picacho Peak: Modern Ruins: Furrer's Museum and Restaurant
- Quartzsite: Naked Bookstore Owner
- Santa Claus: Ruins of Santa's Land
- Scottsdale: Museum of Pawn
- Sedona: E.T. Encounter Diner
- Sedona: Last Supper in Sand
- Sedona: Ye Olde UFO Store
- Sun Valley: International Petrified Forest And Painted Desert
- Tombstone: Mini-Museum of the Strange
- Tucson: Aircraft Boneyard Tour
- Tucson: Duty Hut
- Tucson: Junk Sculpture Garden
- Tucson: Magic Carpet Golf
- Tucson: Willard the T-Rex
- Tucson: Winged Cow, Teepee, Boat
- Wickenburg: Fierce Metal Dinosaur
- Wikieup: Fake Jail Cell Photo Op
- Willcox: A&W Root Beer Family
- Yuma: Sun Glasses Head on a Truck
