No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The only museum and archive west of the Mississippi that is dedicated to the study of Abraham Lincoln.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

Standing in for the first ship to navigate the Northwest Passage.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.