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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.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.