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.

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

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

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

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.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.