A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

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.

Contains a wealth of information about the first exploration and later use of the Green and Colorado Rivers.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

A devilishly named gorge that was a sign of salvation for many pioneers.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.