Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

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

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Mexican food and folk art.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

A large sculptural artwork and garden in Escondido, California.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.