Apache Junction, Arizona
The Superstition Mountain Museum
This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.
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Apache Junction, Arizona
This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.
Tucson, Arizona
From working out of his garage to the James Beard semifinals, one Tucson baker has kept his fan base—and his grains—local.
Tucson, Arizona
In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.
Oracle, Arizona
A reproduction of earth's many biomes.
Tucson, Arizona
One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.
Tucson, Arizona
This small hill features the most notable collection of petroglyphs in Saguaro National Park.
Monticello, Utah
One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.
Montrose, Colorado
A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.
Chimney Rock, Colorado
Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.
Rodeo, New Mexico
This rural museum is home to more than 50 local desert reptiles and the world's largest snake bite kit collection.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.
Alamosa, Colorado
When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.
El Prado, New Mexico
These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.
Florissant, Colorado
The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.
Bayard, Nebraska
This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.
Harrison, Nebraska
Meet cowboys and ancient beardogs at this one-of-a-kind crossroads of Western history.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.
West Glacier, Montana
The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.
West Glacier, Montana
Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.