Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

A desert that evokes the surreal.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

Roadside attraction with more than 1,000 stuffed and mounted animal skins displayed in simulated natural habitats with hand-painted backdrops.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.

The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.