Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

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

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

This is one really big nut.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

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.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

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

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.