Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

This is one really big nut.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

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

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.