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.

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.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

A river runs through this remote valley in a very unexpected way.

The decaying ruins of a failed mining company’s water diversion project cling to the side of a desert canyon.

Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Ute tour guides have been sharing the ancient dwellings and rock art inside this large park with visitors for more than 40 years.

Stay in a luxury cabin or refurbished Airstream in this former mining camp-turned-retreat.