Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area, between Bisti / De-Na-Zin Wilderness and Chaco Canyon The rock formation that looks like a tower with holes is known as the Alien Throne. Whole place looks off-world. Video by Matt Beckmann @mattbeckmannimages on Instagram | New Mexico Nomad

The Bisti-De-Na-Zin Wilderness Area is unusual; a stark, alien landscape, with undulating hills in white, black and red punctuated by hoodoos and natural windows. It looks like a different world. At one point, long ago, it was a different world, populated by dinosaurs long before humans arrived in the region. The wilderness area encompasses 41,170 acres of rock formations that would seem more natural on Mars than in New Mexico. Translated from the Navajo word Bistahí, Bisti means “among the adob