An unusual slot canyon in the Aztec/Navajo Sandstone has a cross-section like an inverted old-fashioned keyhole.

The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

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

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

Two geoglyphs that are truly unique to North America.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

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

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

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

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

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

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 cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.