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The Big Indian Head of Winslow
WINSLOW - Peter Wolf Toth arrived in Winslow in 1979, intent on adding one of his art works to the city's landscape. When he ...Know the Origin of the Highway 89 Screamers?
Under normal circumstances, I can readily find the origins of weird things in Arizona, but there's one north of Flagstaff that puzzles me. No ...Giant Crosses Watch Over Cochise County
Two huge Celtic crosses keep silent watch over the landscape of Cochise County. One graces the Holy Trinity Monastery, a Benedictine community just south ...Courthouse Diversity in Tucson
The Pima County Courthouse has been a Tucson landmark for eight decades, but it took a long time for the community to accept it ...A Unique Shrine of Concrete and Rocks in Yarnell
Nobody can say for sure if any miracles have actually happened at the Shrine of St. Joseph in Yarnell, but the story behind its ...Giant Skull in Yavapai County
Skulls are usually hidden away where they're hard to find, but the Giant Skull of Date Creek is right out in the open, and ...Yuma’s Water Tank Art
Most communities adorn their water towers and tanks with either the town's name or first initial, but in Yuma they opted for something more ...Giant Kachina Guards Carefree Subdivision
The world's largest kachina is a 39-footer that stands guard over the Tonto Hills subdivision about sevel miles north of downtown Carefree. This giant ...A Rattler Over Tucson’s Broadway
The Diamondback Bridge in Tucson can probably lay claim to a variety of different titles -- "the world's longest rattlesnake," "the world's largest rattlesnake" ...The Helping Hand Helps Superior
The town square in Superior isn't very big. In fact, it's not even a square; it's a triangle. A small triangle. So small that ...
Why Does Downtown Phoenix Seem to Have Two Downtowns?
The Tucson Artifacts are the Southwest’s Greatest Hoax