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  2. List of National Historic Landmarks in Arizona - Wikipedia

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    There are 47 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Arizona, counting Hoover Dam that spans from Nevada and is listed in Nevada by the National Park Service (NPS), and Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites, which is listed by the NPS in Arizona, and overlaps into California. The first designated was San Xavier del Bac Mission, in October, 1960.

  3. Tovrea Castle - Wikipedia

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    Tovrea Castle is a historic structure and landmark at 5041 East Van Buren Street in Phoenix, Arizona, on 44 acres (18 ha) bounded by the Red Mountain Freeway (State Route 202) to the east, Washington Street to the south, Van Buren Street to the north and the Main Post Office to the west. Locally known as the "Wedding Cake Castle," it was built ...

  4. The Thing (roadside attraction) - Wikipedia

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    The Thing Museum) is an Arizona roadside attraction extensively advertised by signs along Interstate 10 between El Paso, Texas, and Tucson, Arizona. The object, supposedly a mummified mother and child, is believed to have been made by exhibit creator Homer Tate for sideshows. The Thing was purchased by former lawyer Thomas Binkley Prince in the ...

  5. Phoenix Zoo - Wikipedia

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    The Phoenix Zoo opened in 1962 and is the largest privately owned nonprofit zoo in the United States. [ 6 ] Located in Phoenix, Arizona, the zoo was founded by Robert Maytag, [ 7 ] a member of the Maytag family, and operates on 125 acres (51 ha) of land in the Papago Park area of Phoenix. [ 1 ] It has been designated as a Phoenix Point of Pride.

  6. Heard Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Heard Museum is a private, not-for-profit museum in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, dedicated to the advancement of American Indian art.It presents the stories of American Indian people from a first-person perspective, as well as exhibitions of traditional and contemporary art by American Indian artists and artists influenced by American Indian art.

  7. Desert Botanical Garden - Wikipedia

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    Desert Botanical Garden is a 140-acre (57 ha) botanical garden located in Papago Park, at 1201 N. Galvin Parkway in Phoenix, central Arizona.. Founded by the Arizona Cactus and Native Flora Society in 1937 [1] and established at this site in 1939, the garden now has more than 50,000 plants in more than 4,000 taxa, one-third of which are native to the area, including 379 species which are rare ...

  8. Phoenix Art Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Phoenix Art Museum is the largest museum for visual art in the southwest United States. Located in Phoenix, Arizona , the museum is 285,000 square feet (26,500 m 2 ). It displays international exhibitions alongside its comprehensive collection of more than 18,000 works of American, Asian, European, Latin American, Western American, modern ...

  9. Four Peaks - Wikipedia

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    The name Four Peaks is a reference to the four distinct peaks of a north–south ridge forming the massif's summit. The northernmost peak is named Brown's Peak and is the tallest of the four at 7,659 feet (2,334 m). [ 1 ] It is the highest point in Maricopa County. The remaining summits have no official names, and from north to south are 7,644 ...

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