The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

In the 1950s, two women saved this grand theater in the Colorado mountains from demolition.

A short but powerful waterfall resides amid Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes.

This Colorado fire station has been in continuous operation for more than a century.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

A unique arch graces the Dolores River Canyon near the Hanging Flume.

Historic, 19th-century wagon wheel ruts cut into soft volcanic ash.

This underfoot portrait is the work of a disgruntled painter inspired by a tragic poem.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

Metal water storage tank turned ethereal concert hall.

A museum dedicated to the mysterious cryptid.