Wytheville, Virginia
Big Walker Lookout
A 100-foot metal tower and swinging bridge that provides stunning views of mountains in five states.
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Wytheville, Virginia
A 100-foot metal tower and swinging bridge that provides stunning views of mountains in five states.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.
Tucson, Arizona
The Magical World of George Phar Legler.
Tucson, Arizona
The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.
Phoenix, Arizona
A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.
Phoenix, Arizona
This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.
Phoenix, Arizona
The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.
Phoenix, Arizona
Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.
Tucson, Arizona
Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.
Tucson, Arizona
One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.
Tucson, Arizona
This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.
Houston, Texas
A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.
Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Corinne, Utah
An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.
Genola, Utah
The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.
Fairview, Utah
A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.
Jensen, Utah
Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.
Carbon County, Utah
Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.
Herriman, Utah
A replica that won't float away.
Vernal, Utah
Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.
Midway, Utah
This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.
Las Vegas, Nevada
James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.