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

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

Up-close opportunities to see working birds of prey.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

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

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

The only Native American comic shop in the world.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

A home base for Judy Chicago, one of America's leading radical feminist artists.

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

An artist's suburban abode looks like an architectural fever dream.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.