This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

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

The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

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

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.