Places leysx004 Wants to Go

Once a thriving town of 100, Argonne was abandoned around 1970.

This early 20th-century rural drinking fountain provides water for both horses and humans.

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

The decaying ruins of a failed mining company’s water diversion project cling to the side of a desert canyon.

Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.

A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.

A river runs through this remote valley in a very unexpected way.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

A glimpse of a waterfall is reached by a steel catwalk along a slot canyon located in an Ouray city park.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

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

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

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

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

A quiet rock and botanical garden is the beautiful centerpiece of Fort Lewis College.

A riverside tiny house with books and other treasures galore.

Up-close opportunities to see working birds of prey.

A whimsical roadside community of little metal people.

Most comprehensive museum in America devoted to one ethnic group.