Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

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

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

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

Contains a wealth of information about the first exploration and later use of the Green and Colorado Rivers.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

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

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of Northern New Mexico's geology.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

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

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

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

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.