Safford, Arizona
Large Binocular Telescope
One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.
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Safford, Arizona
One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.
Sedona, Arizona
A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.
Boulder City, Nevada
A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.
White Pine County, Nevada
A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.
Nye, Nevada
Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.
Golden, Colorado
"All Mountains - All The Time."
Stratton, Colorado
When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.
Boulder, Colorado
The clock that sets them all.
Buena Vista, Colorado
At the tallest peak in Colorado, an electrifying mix of thin air, lightning, and rivalry.
Genoa, Colorado
See six states from the newly restored 100-year-old historic roadside attraction.
Dolores, Colorado
A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.
Aspen, Colorado
Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.
Silver City, New Mexico
Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.
Deming, New Mexico
A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.
Wendover, Utah
A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.
Green River, Utah
This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.
Genola, Utah
The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.
Midway, Utah
This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.
Nye, Nevada
Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.
Eureka, Nevada
The current Eureka County Courthouse replaced an all-wooden structure that had previously been an ice-skating rink.
Nye County, Nevada
The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.