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Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

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

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

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

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

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

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

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

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A public library display of fossils from the ice age.

The ruins of a failed dam that was built over land later described as a "sponge."

An unfinished railroad project is now a hidden tunnel.

In the high desert east of Bend, the University of Oregon maintains a research observatory on a remote mountain peak.

This lava tube cave was once a Cold War fallout shelter.

Spectacular volcanic cliffs along the Crooked River invite hiking, rock climbing, and photography.

In eastern Oregon, two mineral hot springs sit along the Malheur River in a fairly desolate area where peace and quiet are abound.

This incongruous small ferry across the Willamette River north of Salem, Oregon has been operating continuously since the 1850s.

Dozens of whimsical bear statues "hibernate" here during the winter months.

An attractive free-plunge waterfall outside Bend in the Deschutes National Forest.