This extraordinary model train layout covers over 1,700 square feet, with multiple trains running simultaneously.

This national landmark is also home to a massive treehouse.

Collection of scores of race cars from the 1900s to recent lovingly maintained and displayed.

A museum dedicated to the history of electric interurban transit near the home of the first electric trolley system in the United States.

Abandoned blast furnaces are an enduring reminder of Scranton's once booming iron business.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

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

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.

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

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

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

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

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

The grave of the famous painter is marked by a simple stone in the ground.

P-town goes wild for the malassadas at this 87-year-old institution.

Provincetown's night owls flock to this 52-year-old pizza joint.