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