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

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

The world's longest known cave system.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

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

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Educational foundation that teaches the powers of fourth dimensional physical properties.