The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

This 15-story mural celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musician's iconic "At Folsom Prison" album.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Etched into a dry lake bed, this massive directional indicator is accurate without magnets.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

Remnants of the United States's largest accidental oil spill still mar a California valley.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

This Old West prison built into the side of a cliff was said to be inescapable.

A museum and tribute to a brave profession.

Concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland which were used to align spy satellites.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

The eroded core of an ancient volcano is now accessible by a short hike.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.