Santa Monica, California
Route 66 End of the Trail Sign
A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.
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Santa Monica, California
A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.
Inglewood, California
A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.
Los Angeles, California
America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.
Long Beach, California
The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.
Mount Baldy, California
Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.
Crestline, California
Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.
Randsburg, California
This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.
San Bernardino, California
Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.
Cadiz, California
Anyone can play paleontologist at this quarry that has Cambrian fossils galore.
Daggett, California
Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.
San Bernardino County, California
The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.
Denver, Colorado
The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).
Denver, Colorado
A unique auditory experience right on the sidewalk.
Denver, Colorado
This 28-foot-tall milk can contains one of the most whimsical ice cream parlors in town.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A tiny slice shop hides down an unmarked hallway in a Las Vegas casino.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.
Beatty, Nevada
Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.
Amargosa Valley, Nevada
A cosmic pit stop just beyond the notorious Area 51.
Amargosa Valley, Nevada
This enormous fiberglass cow near Death Valley National Park once graced a casino roof in Las Vegas.
Inyo County, California
Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.
Big Pine, California
Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.
Lone Pine, California
This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.