The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

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

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

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

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

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

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

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

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

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

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

An urban laboratory.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

A rich history stashed behind an unassuming door in the heart of Gold Country.

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

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.