Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

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

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

More than 25 fully functional scale replicas of famous lighthouses dot the shores of Lake Havasu.

Abandoned mine site with interesting artifacts to explore, including a 4-stamp mill.

This small museum is dedicated to the study of coprolites, or fossilized poop.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

An urban laboratory.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

The most extravagant car collection features a Batmobile, Liberace's mirror ball-ed Rolls Royce, and a stunt car from 'The Fast and the Furious.'

A fantastic resource for information on both Route 66 and the local area.

This roadside sculpture garden in New Mexico venerates Mother Earth and outsider art.

A historic jail preserves etchings from over a century of incarcerated people in a town with a rough and tumble past.

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

An early 20th-century jail not far from the infamous Tombstone, Arizona.

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

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

A mistaken marker makes an erroneous claim along the historic Old Divide Road.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Out of a desire to feed hungry soldiers, a franchise-altering idea was born.