Los Angeles, California
Pink's Hot Dogs
World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.
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Los Angeles, California
World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.
San Luis Obispo, California
A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.
Laguna Beach, California
This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.
Calipatria, California
A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.
Mecca, California
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.
Inyo County, California
The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.
Los Angeles, California
It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.
Los Angeles, California
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Peach Springs, Arizona
One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.
Page, Arizona
A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Fairview, Utah
A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.
Payson, Utah
A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.