Towaoc, Colorado
Ute Mountain Tribal Park
Ute tour guides have been sharing the ancient dwellings and rock art inside this large park with visitors for more than 40 years.
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Towaoc, Colorado
Ute tour guides have been sharing the ancient dwellings and rock art inside this large park with visitors for more than 40 years.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Teec Nos Pos, Utah
The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.
Moab, Utah
The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.
Moab, Utah
This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.
Monticello, Utah
Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.
Monticello, Utah
One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.
San Juan County, Utah
An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.
Bluff, Utah
A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.
Mexican Hat, Utah
This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.
Halchita, Utah
The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.
Kayenta, Arizona
Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.
Tonalea, Arizona
The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of the Navajo Nation.
Tuba City, Arizona
One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.
San Antonio, Texas
A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.
San Antonio, Texas
Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.
Fort Worth, Texas
Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.
Fort Worth, Texas
The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.
Dallas, Texas
A symbol of Texas pride.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.
Scott, Arkansas
People of the Plum Bayou culture built these enormous mounds over 1,000 years ago.
Avery Island, Louisiana
For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.
Haleyville, Alabama
148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.