America’s geological wonders don’t need erupting volcanoes to create breathtaking spectacles that look straight out of a ...

At first glance, the windblown sandstone landscape of the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness looks like the most desolate place on Earth, an inhospitable expanse of sky, sand, and oddly shaped rock formations ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Located in the arid desert of northwestern New Mexico, the Bisti Badlands ...

The Bisti Badlands in northwestern New Mexico look like another planet. Sandstone-capped hoodoos fill canyons like a forest of altars to strange gods. An easy day trip from Farmington, N.M., the ...

Touchstones to the known world begin to melt away with each step upon crossing the threshold of the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness. In the labyrinthine desert dreamscape, weathered rocks rise out of the ...

These often-overlooked desert spots prove you don’t need crowds or big-name parks to experience true desert beauty.

America is diverse, with some regions boasting wild, otherworldly landscapes where time, wind, and water have carved stone into strange and spectacular forms. Geology enthusiasts flock to iconic ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. There is no turning back after a maiden journey into New Mexico’s badlands. Considering the minimal vegetation, ...

BISTI/DE-NA-ZIN WILDERNESS AREA, N.M. — This collection of boulders may be called the Cracked Egg Factory, but the rock in front of me looks more like a Donald Trump hairpiece than it does Humpty ...