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Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

A famous flea market artist's studio that's full of odds and ends.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Volunteers spent years restoring a vintage steam locomotive to operating condition.

An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.

Located near the U.S.-Mexico border, this park remembers the famous raid of General Francisco “Pancho” Villa and his soldiers.

A flat-topped butte that makes a constant backdrop for Western art.

High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.

The highest peak in the Jemez Mountains and the traditional center of the Pueblo world.

A vibrant colony of rescued wolves and other canids.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

This old army installation has worn many hats throughout its history.

A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.

This sundial indicates the time based on where you stand within it.