A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

An urban laboratory.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

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

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.