For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

An urban laboratory.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

What is the Thing?

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

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

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

A historic hydroelectric power plant serves as the unusual backdrop for a public park.