Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

An unusual bed & breakfast made of papercrete.

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

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

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

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

An apocalyptic seismic event creates a deadly chain reaction that ends with a 6-mile long lake developing within weeks.

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.