A junction in the Death Valley backcountry marked by old crankshafts

A desert journey through atomic history.

A lovely park home with a few interesting guests.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

This mobile theater show highlights the story of Hershey through fun facts, unique stories, and plenty of candy samples.

This extraordinary project brings water from the Colorado River to Southern California.

Steel rings embedded in rock enable hikers to ascend a picturesque slot canyon in the Mojave Preserve.

The junction point of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, resurveyed and remonumented in 2016

An isolated, relict ponderosa pine forest in central Oregon that survives on half the usual rainfall due to a geologic quirk

Traces remain from early Cold War experiments on the vulnerability of underground installations to surface explosions

Climb the first lighthouse commissioned on a Great Lake to a lookout with peaceful, panoramic views.

Explore this unspoiled peninsula with 11 sandy beaches and 13 miles of hiking and biking trails (keep an eye out for soaring bald eagles overhead).

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

A maze-like landscape of globular rocks surrounding two Arizona lakes.

A stunning modern interpretation of a Roman temple.

A large wave-cut arch in limestone, carved by Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, is perched atop a ridge.

A 1920s navigation arrow for airmail is preserved right off Interstate 80 near the southern edge of the Great Salt Lake

Built for a motel, this cartoon dino is now a symbol of the area's paleontological heritage.

A unique collection of drawings that represent Fremont Native American culture.

This hiking trail is scattered with the remains of a failed attempt to provide water to farmers in Dry Fork Canyon.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

This maintained cabin is where Josie Morris, an occasional associate of Butch Cassidy, lived out the last 50 years of her life by herself.

The natural history of Utah is on full display inside this museum.