A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

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

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.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

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

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

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

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

Contains a wealth of information about the first exploration and later use of the Green and Colorado Rivers.

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.

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.

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

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

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

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

These falls, sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," still put on a good show at the right time of year.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.