Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

Outsider Art Community.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.