In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.

A historic cemetery doubles as a museum containing hundreds of unique tombs sculpted by a single artist.

On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.

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

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

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.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

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

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

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

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

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

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

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.