Secluded springs in the Rio Grande Gorge offer hot bathing beside the haunted ruins of a stagecoach stop.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

This stone marker honors the man who released Canada goose goslings in Fort Collins, Colorado.

This Colorado fire station has been in continuous operation for more than a century.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

The site of the gruesome massacre—and maybe cannibalism—of five men, a tragedy that made Alferd Packer infamous.

This National Natural Landmark is one of the best examples of a “mass wasting” in the world.

This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his monicker to peaks.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

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

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

Mark Twain once stopped at this rest station during his journey to Nevada.

This town is home to the world’s largest arch constructed entirely of elk antlers.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.