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

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

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

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

An urban laboratory.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

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

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.