Devilish-Sounding Destinations Photo Gallery

Goldrushers on their way to the coast named this barren stretch of southern California Death Valley. And for good reason: temperatures in the valley are among the hottest ever recorded on Earth.  

Goblin Valley's unique rock sculptures, carved out by wind and water, evoke naughty goblins engaging in mischief amid the Utah park's rocky spires and canyons.  

Named for its fallow clay-rich soil, South Dakota's Badlands National Park is known for its spectacular colors, which alternate from dark blue coal stria to bright red scoria.  

Devil's Lake, Wisconsin, may have a sinister-sounding name, but the translation from the Algonquin Indians is Manitou, or great spirit. View the 500-foot quartzite bluffs towering above the 360-acre lake and you'll see why.  

The trees in Arizona's Petrified Forest aren't scared—they're fossils. Created by mineral-rich water flowing through buried trees, the tissues of a dead plant are replaced with minerals.  

Rising out of the Wyoming sands like a Tower of Babel, Devil's Tower is a 1,267-foot monolith created as erosion stripped away the softer surrounding rock layers, allowing the tower to emerge from the ground.