Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The so-called "Bridge of Thighs" in Palm Springs allows nudists to discreetly cross the road.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

A land of debatable treasure.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

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

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.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.