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

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

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

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

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

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

A replica that won't float away.

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

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.