The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

A museum chronicling pioneer life constructed over Interstate 80.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

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

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

Almost all that remains of a town dedicated to supporting the First Transcontinental Railroad.

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

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