Kanab, Utah
Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park
Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.
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Kanab, Utah
Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.
Kanab, Utah
Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."
Green River, Utah
Contains a wealth of information about the first exploration and later use of the Green and Colorado Rivers.
Green River, Utah
A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.
Green River, Utah
Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."
Boulder City, Nevada
An ode to one of the dirtiest jobs during the construction of the Boulder Dam.
Gerlach, Nevada
A remote, little-known natural arch in granite in the desert of northwestern Nevada.
Austin, Nevada
This rest area is also home to a remarkable petroglyph site.
Clark County, Nevada
The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.
Alamo, Nevada
One of the few remaining indigenous petroglyph sites in Nevada.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.
Reno, Nevada
This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.
Boulder City, Nevada
An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.
Nixon, Nevada
This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.
Tonopah, Nevada
The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.
Austin, Nevada
Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.
Tonopah, Nevada
There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.
Reno, Nevada
This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
New Princeton, Oregon
At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.
Anchorage, Alaska
Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.
Little Rock, Arkansas
Art blooms at this unique outdoor gallery along the banks of the Arkansas River.
Tillar, Arkansas
Memorials are nearly all that remains of this Arkansas prison camp, where thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II.
Little Rock, Arkansas
Yup, that's where the name came from.