If you like hard-to-find musical instruments with spiritual, cultural, or indigenous significance, I would highly recommend Sacred Rites on San Fransisco Street just off Route 66. The owner, Kelly, is very passionate about helping people connect to the Divine and offers all kinds of instruments and sacred art (figurines and prints) from different traditions around the world that help people tap into that realm. Ask Kelly to demonstrate for you the Singing Chair or Soundwave bed, that are basically monochords and are simply amazing to experience. Kelly calls these demonstrations "sound therapy" or "sound bathing."

A really great compact downtown area with numerous interesting niche shops and a host of coffee shops, bars and restaurants to suit almost every taste. It seems to vary from extremely busy to very quiet depending on the time of the year, with college life at the nearby NAU having a significant impact. Love the railroad and the huge freight trains that come passing through every 20-30 minutes or so.

FRUSTRATED!! Locals may know about all the one way streets and the inner secrets of parking but I certainly didn't. Sunday night about 6pm and I drove in circles up and down along dark streets looking for parking. Cars are inches from my bumper as I try to navigate. I wasn't about to park 6 blocks away and be expected to carry my camera bag with me so we left and ate by our hotel. HORRIBLE place if you don't know the area well. We never even had a chance to get out of the car. Even decided NOT to try and stop on Tuesday afternoon on our way out of town.