Emery County, Utah
MK Tunnels
Traces remain from early Cold War experiments on the vulnerability of underground installations to surface explosions
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Emery County, Utah
Traces remain from early Cold War experiments on the vulnerability of underground installations to surface explosions
Kanab, Utah
Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."
Bryce, Utah
Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."
Castle Valley, Utah
These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Monticello, Utah
Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.
Mexican Hat, Utah
This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.
San Juan County, Utah
An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.
Monticello, Utah
One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.
Moab, Utah
This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.
Thompson Springs, Utah
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.
Thompson, Utah
A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.
Carbon County, Utah
Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.
Evanston, Wyoming
Evanston's historic railroad complex saved this rail town from reaching the "end of the line."
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.
Oatman, Arizona
This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.
Kingman, Arizona
Don't blink or you'll miss it.
Valentine, Arizona
The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.
Seligman, Arizona
A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.
Flagstaff, Arizona
A replica of the flagpole that gave a frontier town its name.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Halchita, Utah
The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.
Tonopah, Nevada
A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."