Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

What is the Thing?

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

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

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

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

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of Northern New Mexico's geology.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.