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

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

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

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

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

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

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

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.