Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

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

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

A wondrous place to watch a special flower bloom.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

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

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

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

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

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

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

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

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

Colorado's only active volcano last erupted around 4,000 years ago.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

A trove of ridiculously valuable prints and manuscripts under one roof.