Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

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

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Claims to be the "World's Highest Hill."

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

This little slice of old Jerusalem in Oklahoma is the evolution of a 90 year old passion play.

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

A series of silhouettes that recall the great cattle drives of the 19th-century.

One of the stops along the fateful journey of the Donner Party.

Home to fossils and other specimens from the Western Interior Seaway.

Once an ancient sea, this landscape of rocky ravines is filled with the fossils of ancient marine life.

This 100-foot tall bluff located in the western plains of Kansas overlooks a massive reservoir.

These otherworldly limestone formations jut out from the Kansas prairie.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.