The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

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

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

Mine your own precious stones.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

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

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.