Halchita, Utah
Forrest Gump Point
The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.
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Halchita, Utah
The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.
Monticello, Utah
One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.
Monticello, Utah
Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Moab, Utah
It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.
Castle Valley, Utah
These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.
Cisco, Utah
Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.
Weinan, China
A harrowing trail up a mile-high mountain.
Ensenada, Mexico
A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.
Huntsville, Utah
Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.
Nageezi, New Mexico
A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.
Gateway, Colorado
Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.
Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala
Guatemalan womanizer, venerated during Holy Week.
Fruita, Colorado
It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.
Grand Junction, Colorado
This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.
Reno, Nevada
This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.
Reno, Nevada
The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.
Imlay, Nevada
The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."
Winnemucca, Nevada
This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.
Corinne, Utah
An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.
Wendover, Utah
A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.