The Southwest — K. C. Catalfamo

A futuristic statue provides shade for summer days on Roosevelt Row, downtown Phoenix's art district.

A hotel sign glows as dusk falls in downtown Phoenix.

Phoenix Public Market's red neon sign draws in visitors on hot summer nights.

"Her Secret is Patience," a public art sculpture in downtown Phoenix designed by Janet Echelman and named for a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.

Morning latte at downtown Phoenix's Lola Coffee.

Voodoo dolls resembling Joe Arpaio, the controversial sheriff of Maricopa County from 1993 to 2016, for sale at a local business in Phoenix's Roosevelt Row arts district.

An anatomical mural stretches across the side of Roosevelt Community Church on Phoenix's artsy Roosevelt Row district.

The setting sun illuminates a thundercloud over the city.

A haboob, or dust storm, rolls into the city during Phoenix's monsoon season.

A pigeon watches koi fish at the Japanese Friendship Garden.

Delicious tacos with nopales at La Santisima in Phoenix.

An apropos sticker on a Phoenix light post.

The sun sets behind Phoenix's ubiquitous palm trees.

The spectacular sunsets in Phoenix almost make the 115 degree heat worth it.

Palm trees reaching toward the sky in downtown Phoenix.

Street art and murals brighten up Phoenix's neighborhoods.

A portion of Bruce Munro's "Sonoran Light" exhibit at the Desert Botanical Garden.

Beautiful doors guard the entrance of Trinity Cathedral, the cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona.

A colorful splash of graffiti in Phoenix's Roosevelt Row arts district.

A sticker advertises an immigrants' rights advocacy group in the Roosevelt Row arts district of downtown Phoenix.

Graffiti adorns the wooden tables at Melt, an ice cream shop in downtown Phoenix.

A sunrise in Phoenix.

Visitors leave their mark on a street sign outside Half Price Books in Phoenix.

A "knight" prepares to joust at the Arizona Renaissance Festival in Gold Canyon, Arizona.

Fiori di Como, a Dale Chihuly glass sculpture on the ceiling of the Bellagio lobby in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Neon lights on the Las Vegas Strip.

A sign for The Coffee Cup cafe in Boulder City, Nevada.

The sun casts shadows on a wall near Hoover Dam in Nevada.

A bridge across Hoover Dam in Nevada.

Water in the Hoover Dam in Nevada.

A warning to visitors at Hoover Dam in Nevada.

Hoover Dam.

One of the Winged Figures of the Republic, sculptures by Oskar J.W. Hansen near Hoover Dam. Hansen said they hey express "the immutable calm of intellectual resolution, and the enormous power of trained physical strength, equally enthroned in placid triumph of scientific accomplishment."

A prickly pear cactus in bloom at the Desert Botanical Garden.

A saguaro cactus at Desert Botanical Garden.

A cactus at the Desert Botanical Garden.

Frank Lloyd Wright described his Taliesin West -- which is technically in Scottsdale, not Phoenix -- as "an abstract ship afloat on a dry sea."

A view of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West during a nighttime tour.

Triangles abound at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West.

A pole stretches toward the sky at the Titan Missile Museum near Tuscon, Arizona. October 2015.

Equipment at the Titan Missile Museum near Tucson, Arizona. October 2015.

The missile at the Titan Missile Museum near Tucson, Arizona. October 2015.

A tombstone at Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona.

An unknown tomb at Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona.

Arcosanti -- an experimental, sustainable town in Arizona designed by architect Paolo Soleri. November 2015.

Skulls carved into rocks for sale at the gem show in Quartzsite, Arizona.

The grave of Hi Jolly (a.k.a. Hadji Ali), an Ottoman citizen who was a camel driver in the experimental U.S. Camel Corps. Quartzsite, Arizona.

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