USA
California
1 site
Blythe Intaglios
In the Colorado Desert, fifteen miles north of Blythe, six colossal figures lie etched into the earth. The largest stretches 171 feet—a human form visible only from above, created by scraping away dark desert rock to reveal lighter soil beneath. The Mohave and Quechan peoples identify these figures as Mastamho, Creator of Earth and all life, and Hatakulya, the mountain lion who helped bring the world into being. For centuries, the geoglyphs remained known only to those who walked this land.
New Mexico
1 site
Taos Pueblo
Taos Pueblo is not a museum, not a reconstruction, not a relic. It is a community. Approximately 150 people live full-time in the same multi-story adobe structures their ancestors built between 1000 and 1450 CE, without electricity or running water, maintaining traditions unbroken for a millennium. When you visit Taos Pueblo, you enter someone's home—and you do so only because the community has chosen, on its own terms, to allow it.