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

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.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

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

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

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

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

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

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

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.