This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

This Native American settlement dates back to the Pueblo II period.

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

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

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

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

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.