A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

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

These markers are used to determine the ground stability of the Strip.

This mostly abandoned shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

The only mine for rare earth elements in the United States has been intermittently active since the 1950s.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

One of the few remaining railroad turntables is hidden near downtown Raleigh.

A giant concrete churn carries the legacy of American resilience, unity, and greed.

Once the primary source of ice in this region during the mid-20th century.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

This natural spring is the winter home to the largest gathering of manatees in the world.

Approximately 65,000 gallons of crystal clear water pour out of this headspring every minute.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.