A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

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

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

An urban laboratory.

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

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.