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

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

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

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

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

A whimsical roadside community of little metal people.

Ute tour guides have been sharing the ancient dwellings and rock art inside this large park with visitors for more than 40 years.

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

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

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

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

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

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Irontown was founded in 1868, as a second attempt to mine iron from the nearby Iron Mountain.

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.