Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

A kitschy stop on the way to Zion National Park.

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

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

Nature has shaped this drainage tunnel into the digestive tract of a mighty beast.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

If it wasn’t for an innovative use of quilts during a crisis, the city of Panguitch might not exist today.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

This former mining railroad is one of the best-preserved short lines in North America.

Welcome to a feel-good American drugstore, in the classic sense of the term.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

This Stonehenge-inspired solar calendar stands alongside a landfill, in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Go deep on these fascinating fish, and get a bonus lesson on the importance of marine conservation.

A large lava tube that can be walked through with no special equipment.

A striking geological formation in Southern California.

A colorful, century-old cemetery of the Yaqui Indian Tribe hidden amid the suburban sprawl of Tempe, Arizona.

Millions of years of erosion created the feature for which this rock formation is aptly named.

Artifacts from a battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor displayed in the Capitol building of its namesake.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

This mural of the late David Bowie features eight colorful panels showcasing Bowie’s various alter egos.