Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

This village is home to the largest existing settlement of the Ainu, the Indigenous people of Japan.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

This massive solar generating facility in the Nevada desert has been plagued by difficulties.

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

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

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

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

An unusual slot canyon in the Aztec/Navajo Sandstone has a cross-section like an inverted old-fashioned keyhole.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.