These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

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

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

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.

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

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

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

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."