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

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

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.

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

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

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

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

The decaying ruins of a failed mining company’s water diversion project cling to the side of a desert canyon.

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

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.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

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

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

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.