Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

In 1954, two enormous earthquakes occurred just minutes apart, resulting in prominent scarps that extend for miles along the range fronts.

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

A spectacular but little-known slot canyon in extreme northern Nevada, with sheer walls nearly 500 feet high and a perennial stream.

This settlement on the original Transcontinental Railroad began by harvesting timber, but transitioned to a forgotten 19th-century industry: harvesting ice.

A remote, little-known natural arch in granite in the desert of northwestern Nevada.

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

With a crest near 10,000 feet, this treeless fault-block mountain in eastern Oregon provides stunning views and spectacular glacial landforms.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

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.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

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

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

The lost ruins of the forgotten ferry lie hidden beneath the silt.

In one of the hottest parts of the Mojave Desert, shallow bedrock forces the typically dry Mojave River to the surface in this canyon, providing a vital oasis for humans and wildlife.

This large artificial waterfall in Washington state was merely an incidental byproduct of a technological megaproject.

A unique museum where guests can rent and operate a locomotive.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.