A jukebox headstone marks the grave of the Cleveland disc jockey credited with coining the term “rock 'n' roll."

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

This outdoor observatory offers stellar views and a scale model of our solar system.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

Traversing these canyons, visitors can take in stunning views and glimpses of the region's history.

A 250 million-year-old rock formation has earned a rather unique nickname.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

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

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

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

This secluded Iceland farm holds the collected works of one rural sculptor's creations.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.