Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

Outdoor exhibits explore the contributions of European, African, and indigenous peoples to American frontier culture.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

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

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

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

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