Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Thousands of glyphs created by an unknown culture decorate the rock formations of this canyon.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

This former shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.

This Stonehenge-inspired solar calendar stands alongside a landfill, in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

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

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.