For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

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

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

This is one really big nut.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

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

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

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

This Vietnamese bar doubles as a multistory labyrinth.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

A collection of 16,000 antlers crammed beautifully into a small shed.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.