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Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

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.

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

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

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

This limestone cave offers an incredible view of the Río Grande de Arecibo valley.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.