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Allen Thomas

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The mass grave.

Flagstaff, Arizona

TWA-United Grand Canyon Collision Mass Grave

A mass grave for victims of an airline disaster that led to much-needed safety improvements for commercial flights.

Huaca Pucllana in Miraflores

Lima, Peru

Huaca Pucllana

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

Carl's Critter Garden

Hanksville, Utah

Carl's Critter Garden

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.

Moqui Cave

Kanab, Utah

Moqui Cave

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

Paul Bunyan's Woodpile

Elberta, Utah

Paul Bunyan's Woodpile

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

Cedar Breaks National  Monument

Brian Head, Utah

Cedar Breaks National Monument

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

Afternoon at Meadow Hot Springs

Meadow, Utah

Meadow Hot Springs

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

Topaz Museum in Delta, Utah.

Delta, Utah

Topaz Museum

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

Metaphor: The Tree of Utah

Wendover, Utah

Metaphor: The Tree of Utah

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

House on Fire Ruin

San Juan County, Utah

House on Fire Ruin

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

Newspaper Rock.

Monticello, Utah

Newspaper Rock

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

Kodachrome Basin State Park

Henrieville, Utah

Kodachrome Basin Spires

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake

Syracuse, Utah

Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Petroglyph known as "the zipper"

Parowan, Utah

Parowan Gap Petroglyphs

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Salt Flats in Utah

Wendover, Utah

Bonneville Salt Flats / Bonneville Speedway

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Four Corners Monument

Teec Nos Pos, Utah

Four Corners Monument

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Hoodoos from ground level

Kanab, Utah

The Wahweap Hoodoos

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Sunlight from the dome's opening plays on the surface of the spring water, reflecting on the rock face inside

Midway, Utah

Homestead Crater

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Nine Mile Canyon - the BLM has advised it as "an area of critical environmental concern"

Carbon County, Utah

Nine Mile Canyon

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Petroglyphs at Sears Point

Dateland, Arizona

Sears Point Petroglyphs

Some 10,000 works of ancient rock art cover these volcanic basalt outcrops near the Gila River.

'Giganticus Headicus'

Kingman, Arizona

'Giganticus Headicus'

A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.

9-11 Remembrance Garden

Winslow, Arizona

9-11 Remembrance Garden

This memorial includes fragments from one of the greatest tragedies in United States history.

Tom Mix Monument.

Florence, Arizona

Tom Mix Monument

At an isolated roadside rest area stands a monument marking where famous Western star Tom Mix died in 1940.

Geronimo Surrender Monument.

San Simon, Arizona

Geronimo Surrender Monument

A stone pillar commemorates the surrender of the extraordinary Apache leader.

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