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Rare and gorgeous birds abound in this protected wildlife sanctuary.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

Tucked away on a scenic trail, a modest memorial honors one of the greatest writers of our time.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.

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

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

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."

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

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.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

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

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