The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.