A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

A unique collection of drawings that represent Fremont Native American culture.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

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

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.