The Grand Canyon’s original airport, which once welcomed pilots like Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, lies abandoned.

A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.

The first steel dam in the world and the only one still functional in the United States.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

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

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

An artist's vision for connectivity spans seven continents and 16 countries.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.

A park in a small Pennsylvania town is home to an original sculpture by one of its native sons, legendary artist and activist Keith Haring.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

One of the first commercially successful anthracite-powered iron-making operations in North America.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.