Durango, Colorado
Pinkerton Hot Springs
A multicolored mineral mound dribbles piping hot spring water right off the side of a highway.
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Durango, Colorado
A multicolored mineral mound dribbles piping hot spring water right off the side of a highway.
Towaoc, Colorado
Ute tour guides have been sharing the ancient dwellings and rock art inside this large park with visitors for more than 40 years.
Halchita, Utah
The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.
Mexican Hat, Utah
This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.
Bluff, Utah
A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.
Teec Nos Pos, Utah
The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.
Kayenta, Arizona
Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.
Page, Arizona
Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.
Tuba City, Arizona
One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The eroded core of an ancient volcano is now accessible by a short hike.
Flagstaff, Arizona
A mass grave for victims of an airline disaster that led to much-needed safety improvements for commercial flights.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The first of the iconic American roadside attractions lives on as a college mascot.
Laguna, New Mexico
A family-owned and operated cultural center, Native food stand, and store offering a taste of local Indigenous history.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.
Redlands, Colorado
For over a century, it has been a tradition to raise a flag at the top of this 450-foot sandstone pillar on the 4th of July.
Grand Junction, Colorado
This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Holbrook, Arizona
See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.
Holbrook, Arizona
For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.
Holbrook, Arizona
This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.
Holbrook, Arizona
One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.
Winslow, Arizona
This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.