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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

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

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

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

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

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

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

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.