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This small stone building, the final work of a renowned artist, offers a peaceful environment with radiant, colorful glass windows .

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

This chicken coop pays homage to a classic architectural style made famous throughout the southern United States.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

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

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

A private museum dedicated to preserving the heritage of Mardi Gras' most beloved underdog parades, open by appointment.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.