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

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

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

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

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

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

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

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

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

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.