Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

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

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

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

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

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

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Outsider Art Community.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.