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

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

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

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

This outdoor observatory offers stellar views and a scale model of our solar system.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

A gorgeous mural outside a beloved D.C. restaurant pays homage to famous Black Americans.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.