The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

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

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

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.