A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

A replica that won't float away.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.