A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

These century-old beehive-shaped kilns were built to produce charcoal for nearby mines.

This highest peak in Idaho can only be reached by traversing a formation known as "Chicken-Out Ridge."

A creek tumbles over a series of step-like rocks to create this scenic water feature.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

A museum dedicated to the history and art of staying clean.

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

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

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

Although now a decaying ruin, this stone cabin's history includes several notable figures.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

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

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