A vast museum devoted to North Korea's victories against its imperialist enemies.

A highly symbolic tower in honor of Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung's personal philosophy.

Captured in 1968, the Cold War spy ship is the only U.S. Navy vessel being held by a foreign government.

A giant bronze monument to Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il is one of the most sacred sites in North Korea.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

A land of debatable treasure.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

The tangled roots of a giant banyan tree have fully reclaimed the ruins of this abandoned warehouse.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The neighborhood of Eagle Rock is named after a gigantic boulder with a shadowy surprise.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.