One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

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

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.

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

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

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

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

This Stonehenge-inspired solar calendar stands alongside a landfill, in the middle of the Nevada desert.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.