This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

Wool processing mill in an unlikely location.

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A Tibetan Temple and Buddhist organization just off the beaten path in Northern California.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

The smallest country in the world.

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.