An urban laboratory.

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

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

An attractive alpine lake at 8,400 feet that is accessible via a paved road.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.