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View from Hell's Backbone Bridge overlooking Box-Death Hollow Wilderness Area

Escalante, Utah

Hell's Backbone Scenic Road

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

Potash evaporation ponds

Moab, Utah

Potash Evaporation Ponds

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

Newspaper Rock.

Monticello, Utah

Newspaper Rock

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

Landscape Arch

Moab, Utah

Landscape Arch

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Walls of Spooky Gulch

Kane, Utah

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Bryce Canyon

Bryce, Utah

Bryce Canyon

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

El Charro Cafe

Tucson, Arizona

El Charro Cafe

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

Make your own escape through the historic lobby

Tucson, Arizona

Hotel Congress

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

Valley of the Names

Winterhaven, California

Valley of the Names

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

History of Humanity

Felicity, California

Felicity, California: Center of the World

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

Yuma Territorial Prison

Yuma, Arizona

Yuma Territorial Prison

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

Nameplate.

Golden Valley, Arizona

Fish Bowl Spring/ Shaffer Springs

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

Lake Havasu's London Bridge

Lake Havasu City, Arizona

Lake Havasu's London Bridge

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

Parker Dam seen from Arizona.

Parker, Arizona

Parker Dam

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

Anthem Veteran's Memorial

Phoenix, Arizona

Anthem Veterans Memorial

Once a year, at exactly 11:11 a.m., this monument comes to life.

Navajo Code Talkers Tribute

Phoenix, Arizona

Navajo Code Talkers Tribute

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

The Barry Goldwater Memorial Park

Phoenix, Arizona

Barry Goldwater Memorial

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

Chandler's tumbleweed Christmas tree.

Chandler, Arizona

Tumbleweed Christmas Tree

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

Eisendrath House after restoration.

Tempe, Arizona

Eisendrath House

The historic “pink house on the hill” is an architectural gem that now serves as a center for water conservation.

The Top - Moro Rock at Sequoia National Park

Three Rivers, California

Moro Rock

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

General Sherman

Sequoia National Park, California

General Sherman

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Gold Butte National Monument.

Clark County, Nevada

Gold Butte National Monument

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

Meet Last Chance Joe, a grizzled, 36-foot-high prospector figure that was abandoned by its owner, a Sparks, Nevada casino.

Sparks, Nevada

Last Chance Joe

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

Exterior of the cabin.

Panguitch, Utah

Butch Cassidy's Childhood Home

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

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