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A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Colorado's only true geyser is hidden within the San Juan National Forest.

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

This roadside stop between Goblin Valley and the Henry Mountains is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

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

A unique arch graces the Dolores River Canyon near the Hanging Flume.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

Part of a secret 1970s nuclear defense program is now open to the public.

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

This museum is a full-size replica of an original church constructed during the 13th-century.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

When an ancient supervolcano erupted, some of Nebraska's prehistoric animals were forever preserved in ash.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.