After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.