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Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

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

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

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

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

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

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.