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This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

A museum of natural history, Edwin Carter's original log cabin home and workshop houses taxidermy specimens.

A mental health hospital dating back more than 139 years, now features a museum.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

Open-air cremations in Colorado's self-proclaimed spiritual mecca.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

At the tallest peak in Colorado, an electrifying mix of thin air, lightning, and rivalry.

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

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

A little-known hot spring haven right below the highway.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Colorado's only true geyser is hidden within the San Juan National Forest.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.