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The highest peak in the Jemez Mountains and the traditional center of the Pueblo world.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

This restored farmhouse is a time capsule of a 19th-century Colorado homestead.

The world's largest sticker ball weighs in at a mighty 231 pounds.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

Paleoamericans built these ancient walls high in the Colorado Rockies as part of an extensive hunting system.

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

This old train trestle and collapsed tunnel once allowed the railroad to negotiate the steep slopes of the Colorado Rockies.

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

The burial grounds of a secret society includes fences topped with fake Tesla balls.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.