This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

With a crest near 10,000 feet, this treeless fault-block mountain in eastern Oregon provides stunning views and spectacular glacial landforms.

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

A giant sculpture dedicated to a staple of South Bend food culture.

This is one really big nut.