The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Mexican food and folk art.