Linda & Dr. Dick Buscher

One of the best preserved and well known Sinagua ruins is Montezuma Castle National Monument, an impressive 20-room pueblo built into a white limestone cliff.

The Desert Smoketree is a ghostly looking resident of the southwest deserts of North America that often looks more dead than alive.

Surely one of the more unique species of mammal found across the western regions of North America is the black-tailed jackrabbit.

The Gila Wilderness area remains an unspoiled natural region.

Teotihuacan is believed by archeologists to be the first major city of the Americas.

There is no animal across the Americas that has been given more names than the hemisphere's dominant hunting cat often known as the mountain lion. Here's a look at the evasive predator.

The fruits of the cardon and saguaro cacti of the Sonoran Desert are an amazing story of interdependence and survival. Here's a look at the gorgeous blooms of two giant cacti.

One of North America's most unique desert oases is called Quitobaquito Springs.

Wildflowers, shrubs, indigenous trees and cacti all bloom during this season, turning the brown desert landscape of the Sonoran Desert into a kaleidoscope of color.

From the seven-spotted ladybug to clown beetles, the deserts are full of amazing insects with their own quirky features and lifestyles.

Spring has once again returned to the deserts of North America and with her return, so too has the amazing colorful blooms of desert wildflowers and cacti.

The American West has long been as much of an idea and a dream as an actual place. And one of its stars is surely the turkey vulture. Here's a look at the majestic birds in all their glory.

Gorgeous caves, from winding networks of tunnels to lave tubes, are hidden across Arizona.