This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

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

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

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.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

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

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.