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This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

Outsider Art Community.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

A museum devoted entirely to hammers has more than 1,400 items on display dating back to the Romans.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

The simple log cabin of a famed loner and naturalist stands preserved as a symbol of the ultimate DIY lifestyle.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.