A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

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

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

An urban laboratory.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

What is the Thing?

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.