Alamosa, Colorado
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.
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Alamosa, Colorado
When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.
Monte Vista, Colorado
Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.
Pagosa Springs, Colorado
No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.
Calhan, Colorado
Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.
Bailey, Colorado
This hot dog-shaped diner has moved all around Colorado, but has never been to New York.
Bailey, Colorado
A museum dedicated to the mysterious cryptid.
Morrison, Colorado
Travel through the wholesome amusements of yesteryear at this charming miniature village.
Castle Valley, Utah
These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.
Moab, Utah
It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.
Moab, Utah
The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.
Primm, Nevada
This mostly abandoned shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.
Goodsprings, Nevada
The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.
Sloan, Nevada
Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.
Indian Springs, Nevada
This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.
Amargosa Valley, Nevada
This enormous fiberglass cow near Death Valley National Park once graced a casino roof in Las Vegas.
Thompson, Utah
A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.
Thompson Springs, Utah
Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Montrose, Colorado
An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.
Moab, Utah
This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.
Moab, Utah
This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.
Moab, Utah
Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.
Bedrock, Colorado
A river runs through this remote valley in a very unexpected way.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.