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   Arizona State Capitol

   The Arizona capitol of 1901, built of local malapai and granite with a copper dome — the state produced most of America's copper — topped by a winged Victory weathervane. The legislature moved into adjoining buildings in 1960 and the old chambers are now a museum.

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   Heard Museum

   A museum founded in 1929 devoted to the art of the Native peoples of the Southwest, and the leading institution of its kind. It presents work with the makers' own accounts, holds a large Hopi katsina collection and an exhibition on the Indian boarding schools.

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   Faithful Word Baptist Church

   An independent fundamentalist Baptist church in Phoenix founded in 2005 by Steven Anderson, whose sermons have been widely condemned and have led several countries to bar him from entry. It meets in a small commercial unit and has no public visitor function.

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   Phoenix Zoo

   A zoo opened in Papago Park in 1962 by a member of the Maytag family, the largest privately held non-profit zoo in the United States. It ran the breeding programme that brought the Arabian oryx back from near extinction.

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   Phoenix Art Museum

   The largest art museum in the southwestern United States, 285,000 square feet holding more than 18,000 works of American, Asian, European and Latin American art along with fashion design. Open since 1959, it also keeps a sculpture garden and an interactive gallery for children.

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   Desert Botanical Garden

   A 57-hectare garden in Papago Park holding over fifty thousand desert plants, including a third of the world's cactus species and 379 rare or endangered ones. Its Sonoran desert trail explains how the Akimel O'odham lived off these plants.

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   Cathedral of Saints Simon and Jude

   The Catholic cathedral of Phoenix, built in the mid-twentieth century and made a cathedral when the diocese was created in 1969. It stands in the central corridor and serves a heavily Hispanic diocese.

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   St. Mary's Basilica

   The oldest Catholic church in Phoenix, begun in 1881 and rebuilt in 1914 in Mission Revival, with the largest collection of stained glass in Arizona. It was made a minor basilica in 1985, the first in the state, and Franciscans have staffed it throughout.

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   Dream City Church

   A Pentecostal megachurch in north Phoenix affiliated with the Assemblies of God, formerly Phoenix First, with several thousand attending across multiple sites. Its Christmas pageant has been staged annually since the 1970s.

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    St. Stephen Cathedral

    A Ruthenian Greek Catholic cathedral in Phoenix, seat of an eparchy covering the western United States. It serves Eastern-rite Catholics whose liturgy is Byzantine while remaining in communion with Rome.

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   Mystery Castle

   A house in the foothills of South Mountain built through the 1930s by Boyce Luther Gulley from salvage — railway rails, adobe, car parts, petroglyph stones — for the daughter he had left in Seattle when he learned he was dying. She learned of it only after his death and lived in it until 2010.

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   Tovrea Castle

   A house of 1930 on eighteen hectares at 5041 East Van Buren Street, built in three tiered circular storeys so that it looks like a wedding cake. Its surrounding cactus garden, planted by the original Italian owner, holds several hundred species.

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   Papago Park

   A municipal park shared between Phoenix and Tempe, of red sandstone buttes riddled with wind-cut holes, one of which frames the sunrise on the solstice. The zoo, the botanical garden and a Hohokam trail are inside it.

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   Castles N' Coasters

   An amusement park in Phoenix combining four miniature golf courses with roller coasters and arcades, opened in 1976. It is an urban family park rather than a destination one.

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   Pueblo Grande Ruin and Irrigation Sites

   A Hohokam platform mound and canal system in Phoenix, occupied from about AD 450 to 1450, and a National Historic Landmark. The Hohokam dug hundreds of kilometres of irrigation canals across this valley — some of which modern Phoenix canals follow — and the site was renamed S'edav Va'aki in 2023.

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   Encanto

   One of the fifteen urban villages that make up Phoenix, developed in the 1920s and holding some of the city's oldest surviving neighbourhoods along with the park of the same name.

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   Japanese Friendship Garden

   A Japanese stroll garden in Phoenix called Rohō-en, built with Himeji, the city's sister, over several years and opened in 2002. Its pond, tea house and stone lanterns were designed by Japanese gardeners for a desert climate.

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   Central Avenue Corridor

   The stretch of Central Avenue running north from downtown Phoenix, lined with office towers, the art museum and the Heard, and served by the light rail down its middle. It is the closest thing the city has to a single defining street.

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   Encanto Park

   A 90-hectare park in central Phoenix laid out in the 1930s, with a lagoon, palm-lined drives, two golf courses and a small children's amusement park that has run since 1948. It is among the oldest large parks in the city.

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    Camelback East

    One of the fifteen villages of Phoenix, on the east side, named after Camelback Mountain, whose profile of a kneeling camel is the city's best-known landform. Houses climb the lower slopes and the summit trail is steep and busy.

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