James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

An enormous image of Utah's salt flats made entirely from tape.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

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

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

A perfectly circular lake is formed by the crater of an ancient underwater volcano.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.