Museums

Scottsdale, Phoenix & Superstition Mountains

Taliesin West

Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and desert laboratory, a UNESCO World Heritage site

From $22

Winslow, Flagstaff & Painted Desert

Meteor Crater

A privately run impact crater nearly a mile across and about 50,000 years old, with a museum and guided rim walks off I-40

From $25

Phoenix, Phoenix & Superstition Mountains

Musical Instrument Museum

More than 7,500 instruments from over 200 countries and territories, with sound at every exhibit

From $4

Tubac, Tucson & Saguaro

Tubac Presidio State Historic Park

The ruins of Arizona's oldest Spanish presidio, and the state's first state park

From $3

Cottonwood, Sedona & Verde Valley

Tuzigoot National Monument

A 110-room Sinagua pueblo on a limestone ridge above the Verde River

From $10

Holbrook, Flagstaff & Painted Desert

Petrified Forest National Park

Late Triassic logs, Painted Desert badlands, ancestral Puebloan sites and a stretch of old Route 66 along a 28-mile park road

From $15

Phoenix, Phoenix & Superstition Mountains

S'edav Va'aki Museum

A 1,500-year-old village site and Hohokam canals beside Sky Harbor, formerly Pueblo Grande Museum

From $6

Jerome, Sedona & Verde Valley

Jerome Mine Museum

A small historical society museum on Main Street, covering the town's miners and its mix of peoples

From $2

Kingman, Lake Havasu & Colorado River

Mohave Museum of History & Arts

Mohave County's history museum since 1968, on Beale Street just off Route 66

From $6

Window Rock, Page & Monument Valley

Navajo Nation Museum

The Navajo Nation's own museum and library, next to the zoo in Window Rock

Tombstone, Tombstone & Bisbee

O.K. Corral

A privately run museum complex around the site of the 1881 gunfight

From $6

Apache Junction, Phoenix & Superstition Mountains

Superstition Mountain Museum

Local history park with a stamp mill, movie-set buildings and a Lost Dutchman exhibit