One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

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

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.