A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.

A beautiful red-faced slot canyon in northern New Mexico.

A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

This unassuming layer of clay boasts an out-of-this-world origin story.

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

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

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

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

This museum is dedicated to telling the story of dinosaurs from a creationist perspective. 

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

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

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.