Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

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

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

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

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

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

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.