Cabazon, California
Cabazon Dinosaurs
The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.
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Cabazon, California
The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.
Palm Springs, California
Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.
Palm Springs, California
A 250 million-year-old rock formation has earned a rather unique nickname.
Palm Springs, California
This giant spider sculpture made from the iconic car is one giant visual pun.
Palm Springs, California
Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.
Palm Springs, California
The so-called "Bridge of Thighs" in Palm Springs allows nudists to discreetly cross the road.
Palm Springs, California
An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.
Pioneertown, California
A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.
Hemet, California
This mysterious petroglyph evokes the ancient swastika symbol but was later vandalized with the more troublesome Nazi one.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.
Las Vegas, Nevada
James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.
Sloan, Nevada
Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.
Newberry Springs, California
The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.
Newberry Springs, California
The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.
San Bernardino County, California
The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.
Baker, California
This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.
Yermo, California
Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.
Barstow, California
The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.
Yerington, Nevada
Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.
Fallon, Nevada
Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.
Austin, Nevada
Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!
Goldfield, Nevada
This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.