A quiet rock and botanical garden is the beautiful centerpiece of Fort Lewis College.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

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.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

An urban laboratory.

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

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

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