The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

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

Rusting dinosaurs frolic at the entrance to this roadside "snake sanctuary."

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

First Joe Pagac sculpture; sculpture reflects native Tucson wildlife in an urban setting.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

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

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

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

Inside this store, a mysterious statue draws visitors from the world over.

Whiskey lovers, this is your happy place.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Time has been frozen at this station since the bombing in 1980—or so it was believed.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

The highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore looks like a series of undulating waves rising between two public parks.

Singapore's oldest Hindu temple.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.