Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

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

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

Formerly frequented by Hollywood stars and now open for tours.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This highway overpass was named after the tragic disappearance of a young mother who got mixed up with the wrong people.

A local museum honors Wheeler native Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon.

The only nuclear weapon assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

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