This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

A stark reminder of the huge nuclear weapons plant that once stood on the site and its effect on the surrounding area.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

Where unreadable addresses are read, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.