Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in Phoenix
Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in Phoenix? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — Arcosanti, Cattle Track Arts Compound, Air Apparent (James Turrell Skyspace) and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Phoenix they'd never find on their own.
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Arcosanti
Paolo Soleri's half-built utopian 'arcology' city rises out of the mesquite 70 miles north of Phoenix — poure…
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Cattle Track Arts Compound
An 11-acre hidden artist colony founded in 1937 from a redwood house built out of salvaged water-pipeline mat…
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Air Apparent (James Turrell Skyspace)
A James Turrell "Skyspace" that from outside looks like a futuristic bus stop with a hole cut in the roof — s…
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Carefree Sundial
A 62-foot copper-clad sundial with a 35-foot gnomon aimed at the North Star anchors the tiny desert town's De…
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One-Eyed Jack
A 26-foot-tall, 20,000-pound painted-steel jackrabbit sits on its haunches with one giant eye and both ears p…