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

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

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

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

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Home to a full-scale replica of the Ezekiel Airship, an aircraft that allegedly flew in 1902—a year before the Wright brothers took to the skies over Kitty Hawk.

Known as one of America's most beautiful public restrooms.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

After 97 years of constant vigilance from the dome of the Texas State Capitol, the original Goddess of Liberty retired to a life of climate-controlled leisure.

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

This mostly abandoned shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.