Santa Barbara, California
The Mural Room
One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.
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Santa Barbara, California
One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.
Irvine, California
One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.
Garden Grove, California
Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.
Tustin, California
A very tiny church, bisected by a now-dead oak tree and marooned in the middle of a shopping center parking lot.
Costa Mesa, California
A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.
Newport Beach, California
Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.
Los Angeles, California
The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.
Springdale, Utah
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.
Henrieville, Utah
This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.
Kane, Utah
This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
Orderville, Utah
Nature has shaped this drainage tunnel into the digestive tract of a mighty beast.
Lake Powell, Utah
The damming of the Colorado River buried an iconic geologic formation before record-breaking drought brought it back.
Kayenta, Arizona
Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.
Chinle, Arizona
Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.
Kanab, Utah
Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."
Navajo Mountain, Utah
This magnificent natural sandstone bridge is one of the largest in the world and is an iconic symbol for Lake Powell.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.
Phoenix, Arizona
This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
This mesmerizing and surreal landscape features intricate patterns of white and red sandstone.
Phoenix, Arizona
This unique competition celebrates an American Indian and Canadian First Nation cultural tradition.
Page, Arizona
Archaeologists believe this panel of petroglyphs depicting descending sheep and other figures in Glen Canyon are 3,000 to 6,000 years old.
Mesa, Arizona
These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.
Holbrook, Arizona
For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.