A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

A science teacher's dream.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

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

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

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.