Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

Climb atop one of the world's longest and heaviest trains for an unbelievable journey across the Sahara Desert.

A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.

Ancient Manuscripts showcase the civilization of West Africans during the Middle Ages.

Muammar Gaddafi's well-intentioned investment in his favorite city turned out to be a nightmare.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

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.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

These unique volcanic rock formations offer the perfect opportunity to camp and hike.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.