Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

The smallest country in the world.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

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

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

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

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.