A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

A museum dedicated to the history and art of staying clean.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

The collection of intricate sculptures includes one carved from a mammoth's tusk

These subterranean models show Mexico City's central square during three different eras.

In Coyoacán, a pair of coyotes crown a public fountain in reference to the ancient Aztec name of the borough.

The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

This amazing collection includes rare stamps from around the world, including fluorescent ones.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

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

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

"Only the devil could play golf here."