Surat Thani's official flower—and the world's largest—smells of rotting meat.

This archaeological dig site and museum is home to one of the largest dinosaur fossil collections in the world.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Ride a mechanical corn dog at the alleged birthplace of America's favorite deep-fried wiener.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This coastal rock formation resembles a churning cauldron at high tide.

Once a famous outpost for purchasing saddles and spurs, this museum preserves the art, craft, and style of the American cowboy.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

The ruins of a sixth-century monastery sit on the banks of the River Shannon.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.