An artist's vision for connectivity spans seven continents and 16 countries.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

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

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.

A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.