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A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

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

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

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

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

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

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

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

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.