Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

The same security that protects our nukes accidentally protected a gentle herd of antelope.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

The timepiece that exonerated a labor radical accused of a parade bombing that killed ten people.

"You don't need a rocket scientist to build a steam engine, but we've got one." -Museum docent on the credentials of a restoration volunteer.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

Concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland which were used to align spy satellites.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

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

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.