The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

This massive solar generating facility in the Nevada desert has been plagued by difficulties.

This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.

A beautiful little bookshop located in the middle of a desert.

This settlement on the original Transcontinental Railroad began by harvesting timber, but transitioned to a forgotten 19th-century industry: harvesting ice.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

This small stone building, the final work of a renowned artist, offers a peaceful environment with radiant, colorful glass windows .

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.