The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

The jewel of western Mexico's archaeological legacy is this tiered circular pyramid now covered in grass.

Get three sheets to the wind at this desert winery with a nautical theme.

Oldest building in California still in use.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

The magic's in the hole!

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

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

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

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."