This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

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.

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

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

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

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

A Tibetan Temple and Buddhist organization just off the beaten path in Northern California.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

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