Once owned by the largest employer in Colorado, these ovens have been abandoned for over a century.

Ski or snowshoe your way to a feast in the mountains.

A testament to Colorado’s rugged mining history sits against a backdrop of striking mountain scenery.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

Wildflower-filled 19th-century cemetery is a bucolic final resting place.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

This magnificent natural sandstone bridge is one of the largest in the world and is an iconic symbol for Lake Powell.

At certain times in the fall and winter, the sunlight makes this natural sandstone arch glow.

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

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

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.

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

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

A glimpse of a waterfall is reached by a steel catwalk along a slot canyon located in an Ouray city park.

This alpine statue of Jesus in Silverton is said to protect both miners and local economies.

Colorado's only true geyser is hidden within the San Juan National Forest.

A boulder so big and tough, they had to turn it into a landmark.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

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

A whimsical roadside community of little metal people.