Places bekkahleigh Wants to Go

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.

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.

Ute tour guides have been sharing the ancient dwellings and rock art inside this large park with visitors for more than 40 years.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

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.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.