This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

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

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

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

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

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.