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Not too much within the City of Flagstaff, but out on the Navajo Reservation are Grand Falls and the Wupatki Spirit Totems. The Spirit Totems are off to the side of the road on US89 northbound around the entrance to Wupatki National Monument. I don't know why they fascinate me so much? It's a couple of wooden posts with ghost-like faces painted on them.

Grand Falls is also sometimes called "chocolate falls" due to the muddy brown water. It's pretty, but difficult to get to due to the harsh terrain. Do not go there in a car that doesn't have four wheel drive.

There's also the cinder lakes, which aren't actually lakes but a giant cinder bed in the shadow of Sunset Crater (dormant volcano). NASA spent some time there in the 1960s training astronauts because apparently the cinders are similar to the surface of the moon?