A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

A land of debatable treasure.

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.

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

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

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

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.