Mediums from a psychic utopian community lead a trippy VR journey on a parked desert bus.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Erroneously called the world's tallest flagpole, this landmark is devoted to "good neighborliness."

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

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

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

Despite being a perfectly pleasant place to be, Loyalton can't seem to attract any visitors.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

An incredible airplane graveyard sits outside this small museum dedicated to preserving aviation history.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.