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Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

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

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

Thanks to the building of a life-giving reservoir, part of the Great Wall of China is now a dive site.

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

Stay in your own little bubble.

Fine dining 20 feet below the surface in the Indian Ocean.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

It may be a "Smoke Free Ontario" today, but at this museum you can still get a whiff of yesterday’s Golden Age of tobacco farming.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

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