This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

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

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

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

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

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

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

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

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.