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

This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his monicker to peaks.

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

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

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

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.