An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

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

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Described as "the world's most blinging pool."

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an eighth-century Buddhist master.

The tallest stationary dunes on Earth also happen to sing.