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Tor House and Hawk Tower

Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

Tor House and Hawk Tower

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

Last Chance Joe.

Sparks, Nevada

Last Chance Joe

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

"Jackson" (Donald Lipski, 2010).

Reno, Nevada

'Jackson'

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

Guardian of Eden outside NMA

Reno, Nevada

Guardian of Eden

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

A view of the Space Whale lit up at night in front of Reno’s City Hall.

Reno, Nevada

Space Whale

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

Ghost Ranch, New Mexico.

Abiquiu, New Mexico

Ghost Ranch

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

'Cognition Enhancer'

Santa Fe, New Mexico

'Cognition Enhancer'

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

Chimney Rock

Chimney Rock, Colorado

Chimney Rock

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

UFO Watchtower

Center, Colorado

UFO Watchtower

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

Escalante Pueblo.

Dolores, Colorado

Canyons of the Ancients

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

Fresh snow accentuates a warm ancient Puebloan city.

Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

Mesa Verde National Park

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

The lake (2)

Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Hanging Lake

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Swimmers in Mill Creek.

Moab, Utah

Mill Creek

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

Oblique view of the west arch, looking southeast.  The edge of the east arch is barely visible at the top of the photo.

Moab, Utah

Gemini Bridges

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

All sorts of varieties of honey are available.

Durango, Colorado

Honeyville

This bee-themed family business does more with honey than anyone would think was possible.

Pinkerton Hot Springs

Durango, Colorado

Pinkerton Hot Springs

A multicolored mineral mound dribbles piping hot spring water right off the side of a highway.

The Durango-Silverton Train billows with steam along its 26-mile winter trek to Cascade Canyon.

Durango, Colorado

Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

Coney Island Hot Dog Stand

Bailey, Colorado

Coney Island Hot Dog Stand

This hot dog-shaped diner has moved all around Colorado, but has never been to New York.

Inside the cabin.

Breckenridge, Colorado

Edwin Carter Museum

A museum of natural history, Edwin Carter's original log cabin home and workshop houses taxidermy specimens.

Barney Ford  Museum, Breckenridge, CO

Breckenridge, Colorado

Barney Ford Museum

The home of a formerly enslaved man who went on to become a prospector, entrepreneur, and activist for Black rights.

5-8-22

Breckenridge, Colorado

Breckenridge Troll

Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.

The Mother Spring

Pagosa Springs, Colorado

The Mother Spring

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

Zapata Falls in the San Luis Valley in Colorado. June 2023 photograph after relatively wet spring - some of the winter ice sheet is still present and visible in the upper left.

Alamosa County, Colorado

Zapata Falls

A short but powerful waterfall resides amid Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes.

Star trails trace the night sky above snow-covered mountains and sand dunes.

Alamosa, Colorado

Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

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