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

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

On the edge of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, these rock formations create an eerie landscape.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

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

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

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

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

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

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

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

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

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.