The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

This is one really big nut.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

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

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.