A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Inside this store, a mysterious statue draws visitors from the world over.

An urban laboratory.

Every year, festive decorations appear on this juniper tree located in the median strip of a busy highway.

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

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

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

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

California's largest steel arch bridge.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.