This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

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

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

By public opinion, this is Canada's knottiest tree.

This patch of old-growth forest is home to Canada's gnarliest tree.

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

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