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Tuzigoot National Monument protects the ruins of a Sinagua pueblo on a limestone ridge above the Verde River near Clarkdale, about 24 km south-west of Sedona. Built from around 1000 and enlarged to some 110 rooms before it was left around 1400, it was excavated in 1933 and 1934. A short trail climbs through the walls to the hilltop, and a museum shows finds from the site.

Johnston Canyon is a limestone gorge cut by Johnston Creek beside the Bow Valley Parkway, between the town of Banff and Lake Louise in Banff National Park. A walkway with railings and bridges follows the sheer canyon walls past waterfalls and pools, and a longer trail continues to the Ink Pots, six spring-fed pools in a meadow above. In winter, climbers scale the frozen falls.

The ruins of the principal religious centre of the Zapotecs in the Tlacolula valley, about 40 km south-east of Oaxaca, at its height in the centuries before the Spanish conquest. Its palaces are covered in stone mosaics of geometric fretwork made of thousands of cut stones.

A Montezuma cypress (ahuehuete) in the churchyard of Santa María del Tule, about 10 km east of Oaxaca on the road to Mitla, with the stoutest trunk of any known tree, over 14 metres across. Its age is estimated at well over a thousand years; it stands beside the town's white church.

A garden of about 2.3 hectares in the former orchard of the Santo Domingo convent, laid out from 1994 with the help of the artist Francisco Toledo. It shows plants of the state of Oaxaca and their uses — cacti, agaves, trees and crops — and is seen on guided walks.

An art institute and library founded in 1988 by the artist Francisco Toledo in a colonial house opposite Santo Domingo. Its rooms around two courtyards show exhibitions of prints and graphic art from its collection, and it holds a library of art books open to the public.

A Dominican church and convent in the north of Oaxaca's historic centre, begun in the 1550s and opened in 1608. Behind its plain stone facade the interior is covered in gilded and painted stucco, with a genealogical tree of the Guzmán family on the ceiling under the choir and the gilded Rosary Chapel.

A museum of pre-Hispanic art in a colonial house in Oaxaca's historic centre, founded by the painter Rufino Tamayo, a native of the city, and opened in 1974. It shows his collection of more than a thousand ancient figures and vessels from across Mexico, chosen for their form and arranged as art.

The cathedral of the Archdiocese of Antequera on the Alameda de León beside the Zócalo, begun around 1535 and consecrated in 1733 after rebuilding following earthquakes. Its Baroque facade of green cantera stone shows the Assumption of the Virgin; the interior is Neoclassical.

A Baroque sanctuary west of the centre built in 1682–90 for the Virgin of Solitude, patron of Oaxaca, with low towers to withstand earthquakes. Its facade is carved like a folding screen of stone, and the plaza in front has stalls selling ice cream.

A covered food market two blocks south of Oaxaca's Zócalo, next to the Benito Juárez market. Its stalls serve Oaxacan dishes such as tlayudas, moles and tamales, and in the smoky meat hall, the pasillo de humo, customers choose meat that is grilled on the spot.

The ruins of the Zapotec capital on a levelled mountain ridge about 9 km west of Oaxaca, founded around 500 BC and inhabited for more than a thousand years. Pyramids, palaces, a ball court and the carved stones of the Danzantes surround the Gran Plaza, with views over the three valleys of Oaxaca.

The Lake Louise Ski Resort lies on the slopes of Whitehorn Mountain and Lipalian Mountain, across the valley from the village of Lake Louise and about 57 km from Banff. In winter its lifts serve ski runs and a tube park; in summer a sightseeing gondola climbs Whitehorn Mountain, with a wildlife interpretive centre at its base and views across the Bow Valley.

Moraine Lake is a glacier-fed lake in the Valley of the Ten Peaks in Banff National Park, 14 km from the village of Lake Louise, at an elevation of about 1,884 metres. Fed almost entirely by snowmelt and glacial meltwater, it fills by mid to late June, when rock flour gives the water its blue colour. The lake covers 50 hectares and has never been dammed.

Lake Louise is a glacial lake in Banff National Park, 5 km west of the village of Lake Louise, named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, a daughter of Queen Victoria. Rock flour in meltwater from the glaciers above gives the water its turquoise colour. The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise stands on the eastern shore, and trails lead along the lake and up to Lake Agnes.

Taliesin West was Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home, studio and architecture school, built from 1937 by Wright and his apprentices in the foothills of the McDowell Mountains in Scottsdale, about 27 km north-east of downtown Phoenix. Its low buildings of desert stone set in concrete, under canvas and redwood roofs, are part of a World Heritage Site, seen on guided tours.

The Musical Instrument Museum, known as MIM, opened in 2010 in north Phoenix, near the Scottsdale city line, founded by the retail executive Robert J. Ulrich. Its galleries show thousands of instruments from about 200 countries and territories, with headsets that play film and sound of each instrument being played; in the Experience Gallery visitors can try instruments themselves.

Camelback Mountain is a peak of 824 metres between Phoenix and Scottsdale, about 13 km north-east of downtown, named for its outline of a kneeling camel. Two steep trails, Echo Canyon and Cholla, climb about 400 metres over rock and loose ground to the summit, with views over the whole valley; the Praying Monk rock stands on the camel's head.

The Desert Botanical Garden, opened in 1939, covers 56 hectares in Papago Park, about 12 km east of downtown Phoenix. Some 50,000 plants from the world's deserts grow along themed trails, among them the Desert Discovery Loop and the Sonoran Desert Nature Loop, with saguaros, agaves and wildflowers; in December the paths are lit by candle lanterns for Las Noches de las Luminarias.

Papago Park is a desert park of red sandstone buttes on the border of Phoenix and Tempe, about 12 km east of downtown. Short trails lead to Hole-in-the-Rock, a butte pierced by a natural opening used by the Hohokam to follow the sun, and to the white pyramid tomb of Arizona's first governor, George Hunt. The Phoenix Zoo and the Desert Botanical Garden lie within it.