Canyon de Chelly National ­Monument

Beautiful and spiritual, the remote and variegated Canyon de Chelly feels far removed from time and space. Pronounced 'd-shay' (the name is a corruption of the Navajo word tsegi, or 'rock canyon'), it's been inhabited for 5000 years, and shelters prehistoric petroglyphs alongside the 1000-year-old cliff dwellings of Ancestral Puebloans.