Inyo County, California
Badwater Basin
The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.
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Inyo County, California
The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.
Death Valley, California
Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.
Inyo County, California
"Only the devil could play golf here."
New Mexico
One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.
Farmington, New Mexico
Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.
Three Rivers, New Mexico
More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.
Bluff, Utah
A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.
Silver City, New Mexico
These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.
Jemez Springs, New Mexico
Once a year, the ruins of an ancient village come alive with hundreds of glowing farolitos.
Aztec, New Mexico
The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.
Nageezi, New Mexico
A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.
Nevada
This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.
Clark County, Nevada
The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.
Nevada
An unusual slot canyon in the Aztec/Navajo Sandstone has a cross-section like an inverted old-fashioned keyhole.
Bunkerville, Nevada
An unexpected sinkhole in a desert flat within Gold Butte National Monument.
Littlefield, Arizona
An improbable sinkhole in the sediments flanking the Beaver Dam Mountains.
Page, Arizona
Archaeologists believe this panel of petroglyphs depicting descending sheep and other figures in Glen Canyon are 3,000 to 6,000 years old.
Kanab, Utah
This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.
Alpine, Texas
This is probably not the Target you're looking for.
Big Water, Utah
This hidden gem along the Utah-Arizona border is truly worth the rugged journey.
North Rim, Arizona
Hike up to this ancestral grain storage site, but don't touch.