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Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

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

What is the Thing?

This replica of the Indian spiritual master Meher Baba's tomb stands unfinished in the New Mexico desert.

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

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

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

"May the force be with you always."

This little slice of old Jerusalem in Oklahoma is the evolution of a century-old passion play.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

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