The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.