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

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

An urban laboratory.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

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

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

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

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.