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The stone circle honors the 19 firemen who perished during the Yarnell Hill Fire.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

An important piece of history from mankind's journey to the moon sits in the lobby of a government science lab.

The remnants of a creative early method of wildfire prevention.

This remote desert watering hole has a connection to a curious chapter of American history.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

The Grand Canyon’s original airport, which once welcomed pilots like Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, lies abandoned.

A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.

The first steel dam in the world and the only one still functional in the United States.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

An artist's vision for connectivity spans seven continents and 16 countries.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.