Metal water storage tank turned ethereal concert hall.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

Contains a wealth of information about the first exploration and later use of the Green and Colorado Rivers.

A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.

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

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

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

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

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

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.