Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The site of a defunct mill, that once supplied marble for the construction of the Lincoln Memorial.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

A little-known hot spring haven right below the highway.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

A glimpse of a waterfall is reached by a steel catwalk along a slot canyon located in an Ouray city park.

This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.

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.

The decaying ruins of a failed mining company’s water diversion project cling to the side of a desert canyon.

A unique arch graces the Dolores River Canyon near the Hanging Flume.

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 graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of the Navajo Nation.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

More than a century old, this trading post resides in the Navajo Nation.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.