This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

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

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

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

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

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.

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

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

Erroneously called the world's tallest flagpole, this landmark is devoted to "good neighborliness."

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.