If you love history, you’ll enjoy the San Diego History Center, and the Museum of Us lets you explore human cultures from ...

The National Park Service will close access to Crater Lake at the end of summer 2025, that’s expected to last until summer ...

You can kayak through the rock maze or hit the trails for killer views, but here’s the catch: don’t plan on swimming. The ...

Led by Francisco Cuervo y Valdés, these colonial settlers established a small farming community that has somehow survived ...

Arizona’s best ghost towns aren’t just empty buildings collecting dust. They’re gold mines frozen in time, saloons where you ...

The 1,400-acre Bottomless Lakes State Park, established in 1933, holds the distinction of being New Mexico’s first state park ...

The Devil’s Kettle is a waterfall where the Brule River splits in two, with one half flowing normally while the other half ...

Based on that picture, it’s pretty clear why they call it Utah’s “belly button.” But behind that cute nickname is an ancient ...

Just past the Salton Sea is a mountain made entirely of paint and passion. Salvation Mountain is the life’s work of Leonard ...

Looming over Waikiki Beach on Oahu, Diamond Head is Hawaii’s most famous landmark. Hawaiians called it “Lēʻahi” because it ...

Many scholars agree that the name Tonto derived from the Chiricahua name for Western Apaches — bini édiné — meaning “people without minds.” This may have referred to the fact that they spoke a ...

Welcome to a close encounter of the museum kind, aka the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, NM. Whether you’re a believer or not, it’s actually a pretty cool stop. Here are some ...