Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

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

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

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

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

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

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 tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

The imprints of astronaut Charles Duke’s moon boots live on at Myrtle Beach’s official South Carolina Hall of Fame.

A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.

This chicken coop pays homage to a classic architectural style made famous throughout the southern United States.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.