Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

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

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

California's oldest existing theater building hosted an impressive cast of celebrities, including hosting Mark Twain's first lecture.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.