The 25 Best Roadside Attractions in Arizona
Ranked by Roadtrippi users — the people who've actually been there. Updated June 2026. Roadtrippi catalogs 401 roadside attractions in Arizona.
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1. Flying Saucer Mural at Auto Body Shop
Tucson, AZ
Painted in 2004 by Ray Guitard: his idea of what his auto body shop would look like in space, with a green alien towing a wrecked flying saucer. Ray also customizes cars to look like spaceships, sometimes visible parked in his lot.
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2. Museum of Pawn (Gone)
AZ
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3. Toby the Red Griffin
Tucson, AZ
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4. Pizzeria With a Pipe Organ
Mesa, AZ
Eat a pepperoni and mushroom pie to the soothing sounds of "Anchors Aweigh" or "Over The Rainbow" played on a 6,000-pipe theater organ.
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5. Cliff Dwellings Trail
Flagstaff, AZ
E-Z access ancient ruins. Steep, paved trail leads into the canyon for close-up views (bring water).
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6. Silo House
Safford, AZ
Private home created from a custom-modified storage silo or tank.
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7. Giant Mosaic Gila Monsters
Tucson, AZ
In the median of West Irvington Road lie a pair of mosaic gila monsters 52 feet long.
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8. Big Chicken
Page, AZ
Standard-issue eight-foot-tall fiberglass rooster. Looks new in 2019.
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9. Navajo Code Talker Statue
Phoenix, AZ
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10. Arizona K-9 Memorial
Phoenix, AZ
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11. Concrete Wine Bottle
Tucson, AZ
The big wine bottle might survive any DWI parking lot mishap. And drinking this much wine would indeed make your head feel like cement.
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12. Skywatcher's Inn (Gone)
Benson, AZ
The former Skywatcher's Inn was a B&B observatory for star-gazing buffs. Now under new ownership as the San Pedro Valley Observatory: No more sleepovers, observatory only, but you can arrange for all-night observing.
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13. Joanne's Gum Gallery Museum (Closed)
Quartzsite, AZ
Personal collection of gum in the wrapper amassed since Joanne Brunet was a little girl in the 1940s. Over 100 cases contain 4,000 specimens exhibited in the building behind her home.
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14. Why Pyramid
Why, AZ
Why not a pyramid in Why? Not a public attraction, might be a dwelling, maybe 15 feet tall, and appears made of bricks. It's just off the highway.
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15. Renegade Studios Folk Art (Gone)
Bisbee, AZ
Joseph Klinger's found objects and junk art creations adorn a building and a fence fronting a private lot in historic Bisbee.
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16. Kitt Peak Observatory
Sells, AZ
The largest collection of optical telescopes in the world (24) are perched along a mountaintop ridge in the Sonoran Desert.
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17. Poki, the World's Largest Desert Tortoise
Bullhead City, AZ
Weighs two tons. Named "Poki" by the wealthy local man who had it built for his own amusement. Move to a public spot in town in January 2014.
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18. Rawhide Wild West Town
Chandler, AZ
Fake western town bought by an Indian tribe and moved from its previous fake location. Rough Rider stunt show, Widowmaker Mechanical Bull, steakhouse. 2017: No longer offers public hours.
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19. Frontier Relics Museum (Closed)
Dos Cabezas, AZ
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20. Arizona Falls
Phoenix, AZ
Visitors walk through a sewer pipe gateway to the scenic overlook of a municipal waterfall spewing untreated canal outflow.
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21. Outdoor Statues, Old Signs
Sedona, AZ
Roadside junk Sedona-style. A variety of vintage (or faux-vintage) statues and signs spill into the parking lot outside of an antique shop.
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22. Peek-a-Boo Jesus
Mesa, AZ
A Latter Day Saints temple visitors' center featured a messianic reveal as one of its main attractions. The curtains open and Jesus greeted you, standing in front of a painted backdrop of planets and heavenly clouds.
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23. USS Arizona Anchor, Mast, Gun Barrel
Phoenix, AZ
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24. President Garfield Fireplace
Willcox, AZ
A rock pile memorial to President Garfield was built in the Arizona desert soon after his 1880 assassination. It was later cannibalized for its rocks, and the inscription stone became part of a ranch house fireplace.
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25. Titan Missile Museum
Green Valley, AZ
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