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Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

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.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

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 land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

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

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

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

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

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

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

An urban laboratory.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.