Heard Museum: Discover the histories and ways of life of Arizona’s many Native American communities at this renowned institution, filled with artistic, ceremonial, and daily-life artifacts from both ancient history and more modern times.

Phoenix Art Museum: Spend hours browsing through one of the Southwest’s top cultural depositories, where you’ll see a spectacular array of the art of the American West and of the Western world.

Taliesin West: Tour architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s desert masterpiece, a rare example of how humans can settle on the wild desert without marring or destroying it in the process.

The Apache Trail: Take a daylong back-road adventure on the city’s rugged desert edges, passing by three glassy blue lakes ringed by sagauro, and through a few sleepy and forgotten mining towns.

Casa Grande Ruins National Monument: Explore the mysterious remains of a crumbling Hohokam great house.