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This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

A naturally occurring amphitheater carved by erosion into the mountainside.

The corpse bride of Portugal.

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

The first motion picture theater in southern Utah, reimagined and renovated as an arts hub.

Where the legendary wizard sleeps for eternity, according to Arthurian lore.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

The oldest standing building in Las Vegas was established by Mormon settlers.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

If it wasn’t for an innovative use of quilts during a crisis, the city of Panguitch might not exist today.

Two well-preserved charcoal kilns survive in a remote part of eastern Nevada.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

One of El Paso's oldest dives may have inspired the classic Marty Robbins song.

The wreckage of a crash that killed nine people still litters the Franklin Mountains.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

El Paso's only historic house museum is an adobe mansion built by a prominent multicultural borderlands family.

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.