Green tiki head at the old Ranchero Motel in Anteres, Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/3092715/free-photo-image-arizona-green-public-domainFree Image from public domain licenseThe Arizona state flag flies along old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582293/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseA distant butte near Truxton, along old U.S. Highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona. Original image from Carol M.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582268/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseThe Wigwam Motel on Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizona, where one can indeed “spend the night in a wigwam.” The… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582250/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseHistoric Route 66 Motel sign, Kingman, Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/421714/free-photo-image-route-sign-carol-highsmithFree Image from public domain licenseHistoric Route 66 Motel sign, Kingman, Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/421731/free-photo-image-black-and-white-desert-advertisingFree Image from public domain licenseCorner of an eclectic gift shop and convenience store mere feet off historic U.S. Route 66 in Seligman, Arizona. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582351/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseSunset near the settlement of Antares in northwestern Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582247/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseRainbow across a dirt road near the settlement of Antares in northwestern Arizona. Original image from Carol M.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582452/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseCreative "diver" neon sign at the old Starlight Motel in Mesa, a small Arizona city that became one of sprawling Phoenix's… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582406/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseSupai Motel neon sign in Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/3092490/free-photo-image-arizona-america-carol-highsmithFree Image from public domain licenseCorvette Car outside the Route 66 Hackberry General Store in Hackberry, Arizona. Original image from Carol M.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582306/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain license An old police car next to the Court Motel accents the vintage ambience along the historic U.S. Route… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8071709/photo-image-person-vintage-roadFree Image from public domain licenseMunger Moss Motel neon sign in Lebanon, Missouri. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/3091385/free-photo-image-hotel-america-carol-highsmithFree Image from public domain licenseVintage auto — and restaurant — along historic U.S. Route 66, once the two-lane “Mother Road”… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582402/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseThe old Cowboy Motel in Amarillo, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/3089141/free-photo-image-cowboy-vintageFree Image from public domain license The Court motel, along the historic U.S. Route 66 as it winds through Carthage, a city in… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8057122/photo-image-cloud-sky-public-domainFree Image from public domain licensePete’s, a vintage gas station in Williams, Arizona, a town of just 3,000 or so residents but a well-known place among… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582410/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseFord Ranchero, Route 66. The Ford Ranchero is a coupe utility that was produced by Ford between 1957 and 1979. Unlike a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/4026045/ford-ranchero-route-66Free Image from public domain licenseBlue Swallow Motel on Route 66 in Tucumcari, New Mexico was built in 1939 by W.A. Higgins. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/2347080/photo-image-cloud-plant-treeView licenseRoy's Motel sign, Route 66, Amboy, California (1991) photography in high resolution by John Margolies. Original from the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/3802525/photo-image-blue-vintage-foodFree Image from public domain license Vintage sign for the Lazy K Motel in Ogallala, a small city in southwest Nebraska that was once on… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8044024/photo-image-cloud-plant-treeFree Image from public domain license A very, very old, long-abandoned motel whose colorful facade remains strikingly visible (if fading)… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8043826/photo-image-public-domain-united-statesFree Image from public domain license A very, very old, long-abandoned motel whose colorful facade remains strikingly visible (if fading)… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8044177/photo-image-public-domain-united-statesFree Image from public domain licenseThe Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, Oct. 27, 2014, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Original from… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/440011/free-photo-image-delivery-wallops-nasaFree Image from public domain licenseThe Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket suffers a catastrophic anomaly moments after launch. Original from NASA.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/439988/free-photo-image-americas-public-domain-antares-blast-offFree Image from public domain licenseThe Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket suffers a catastrophic anomaly moments after launch. Original from NASA.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/439998/free-photo-image-rocket-wallops-corporationFree Image from public domain licenseAbove Hoover Dam near Boulder City, Nevada. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/421829/free-photo-image-colorado-hydroelectric-damFree Image from public domain licenseA massive cloud presages a thunderstorm above Groom, a tiny community along old U.S. Route 66 in the Texas Panhandle.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582567/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseA representation of the sign for the Texas portion of the old U.S. Highway 66, posted during a short portion of that road… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582626/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseDusk shot of the neon sign for the Maverick Inn in Alpine, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582654/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseNeon sign in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the northern end of the sweeping Owens Valley in the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/2212445/thunderbird-hotel-signFree Image from public domain licenseMotel Dine-a-ville sign, Vernal, Utah (1991) photography in high resolution by John Margolies. Original from the Library of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/3802530/photo-image-blue-vintage-retroFree Image from public domain licenseSaguaro cacti — native to Arizona and a bit of California and northern Mexico — display their upturned… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582295/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseAt least thirteen named canyons and numerous buttes and mountains surround the Arizona city of Sedona, and many of those… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582363/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseSaguaro cacti — native to Arizona and a bit of California and northern Mexico — display their upturned… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582297/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseChief Motel statue, Carrington, North Dakota (1978) photography in high resolution by John Margolies. Original from the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/3803749/photo-image-blue-vintage-retroFree Image from public domain licenseRusty Bolt souvenir store on Route 66 in Seligman, Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/421702/free-photo-image-travel-road-sign-arizonaFree Image from public domain licenseThe famous red-sandstone formations that surround Sedona, Arizona, a popular tourist destination whose main attraction are… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582382/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseSaguaro cacti outside Tucson, Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582304/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseSome of the stunning red rocks for which Sedona, in nothern Arizona, is famous. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582343/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseThe famous red-sandstone formations that surround Sedona, Arizona, a popular tourist destination whose main attraction are… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582368/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseA handsome specimen of the saguaro cactus, famous for its uplifted “arms,” in desert country near Morristown… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582392/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseSome of the stunning red rocks for which Sedona, in nothern Arizona, is famous. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582360/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseScene on the remote Navajo Nation’s lands in far-northeastern Arizona. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582328/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseHorses running near a settlement called The Gap, on the remote Navajo Nation’s lands in far-northeastern Arizona. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582330/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseCourtyard and fountain at the Arizona Inn, a venerable hostelry in Tucson, Arizona. Original image from Carol M.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582252/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseDownpour during a thunderstorm on the plains, near Tucson, Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582314/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseBrightly landscaped home in Tempe, Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582434/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseArtist Doug Hyde's 1999 "Intertribal Greeting" broze sculpture at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, a private, not-for… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582426/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseColorful HIstoric Motel in Wildwood, New Jersey. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/421703/motel-wildwoodFree Image from public domain licenseThe famous red-sandstone formations that surround Sedona, Arizona, a popular tourist destination whose main attraction are… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582347/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseSaguaro cacti at sunset outside Tucson, Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582358/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseThe Agave branch of the Phoenix Public Library in Phoenix, Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582395/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseArtwork on water towers along a remote Arizona road leading to Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, a red-sand desert region… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582239/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseIron horses metal art and cacti near Sedona, Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582274/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseThis is not a fire in the distance, near the settlement of Ganado on Navajo Nation land in far northeast Arizona. It’s… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582341/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseThe wide doorway of the living room in an elegant, modernist house in the prosperous community of Paradise Valley, Arizona… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582277/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseBougainvillea explode with color outside this Tucson, Arizona, cottage, which, like many modest homes in town, turn mundane… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582428/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseCotton field near Safford in eastern Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582279/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseView of the mountains east of Phoenix from McDowell Mountain Regional Park. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582413/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseCotton ball-like clouds drift over the remote terrain near the northern Arizona town of Page. Original image from Carol M.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582321/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseSpectacular rainbow outside the settlement of Humbolt-Dewey, near Prescott in Central Arizona. Original image from Carol M.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582352/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseWildflowers in the harsh Arizona desert, near Yuma. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582296/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseThe Superstition Mountains, a condensed chain of peaks near Tortilla Flat, Ariizona, east of Phoenix, are a designated… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582383/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseA portion of the in the “Granite Dells” — exposed bedrock of estimated-1.4-billion-year-old igneous-rock… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582236/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseVivid reflections from a spectacular sunset highlight a passing freight train near Peach Springs, Arizona. Original image… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582447/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseThe “sheriff” of Old Tombstone, now an Old West tourist attraction in southeastern Arizona. Original image from… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582345/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseSome of several observatory buildings at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona-Sonoran… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582266/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseAn elegant, modernist home’s view of the Phoenix Area’s “Valley of the Sun,” accented by an… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582308/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseCamelback Mountain, an iconic natural attraction of the Phoenix, Arizona, “Valley of the Sun,” as seen from… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582237/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain license The office sign, but no name, is still present (as of 2020) on the 1929 Rock Fountain Court (later… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8056850/photo-image-sky-public-domain-blueFree Image from public domain license A Phillips 66 gasoline station, opened in 1930 and refreshed into the town visitor center in Baxter… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8093080/photo-image-plant-tree-skyFree Image from public domain licenseWhen a development was built five miles north of Wickenburg — a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582394/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseKayenta Rock, sometimes called Church Rock, a stone pillar near Monument Valley on the lands of the Navajo Nation, near the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582366/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseYoung fans of the Colorado Rockies major-league baseball team wait and hope for player autographs at a Spring Training game… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582348/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseReplica of a c.1300 adobe compound of the Hohokam people mounted at the city-run Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582436/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseView of spectacular Monument Valley, one of the most-photographed scenic locations in Arizona, on Navajo lands east of the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582393/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseA stagecoach rumbles past in Old Tombstone in southeastern Arizona, once a hotbed of Old West gunfights and such at its O.K.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582317/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseBiosphere 2, a science research facility in Oracle, Arizona, now owned by the University of Arizona. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582397/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseHavasu Creek flows past a campground between Mooney Falls and Havasu Falls — two of the five Havasupai waterfalls deep… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582267/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseThe incomplete frontier mission in the tiny settlement of Tumacacori, south of Tucson, Arizona, where native Indian and… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582242/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseTwo downtown buildings, including the old Avenue Hotel, right — now (2019) a bed-and-breakfast inn that celebrated its… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582353/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseAerial view of a portion the water and surroundings of Lake Mead, created by the construction of nearby Hoover Dam, which… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582448/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseScene at the DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun Historic District in Tucson, Arizona — the artistic manifestation and… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582235/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseWhat many Arizonans lack in natural grass in that desert state, they make up with creative landscaping, including… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582391/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseDepot for the stagecoaches that carry guests throughout the White Stallion Ranch, a dude ranch outside Tucson, Arizona.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582325/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseRock formations near the desolate Fort Bowie National Historic Site in Cochise County, Arizona. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582365/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseCliffsides in the “Granite Dells” — exposed bedrock and tinted layers of estimated-1.4-billion-year-old… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582298/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseSunset near the desolate Fort Bowie National Historic Site in Cochise County, Arizona. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582334/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseThe Arcosanti Apse, a semi-dome at Arcosanti, a tiny settlement founded as an experimental of the future in Yavapai County… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582418/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseWhen this photograph was taken in 2018, the subject of border walls between the United States and Mexico was a controversial… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582258/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseBlack bear on the move at Bearizona, a drive-through wildlife park featuring a variety of North American animals outside the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582408/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseThe Clark Telescope, built in 1896 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582283/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseA mule-drawn stagecoach, its driver, and a handler near the famous O.K. Corral in Old Tombstone, now a tourist attraction in… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582320/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain licenseTwo large, ferocious-looking Tyrannosaurus metal-art sculptures face off outside Holt's gas station and gift shop in Gila… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582403/carol-highsmiths-arizona-photographFree Image from public domain license