There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

A land of debatable treasure.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

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

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

A tragedy and memorial that raised awareness about the dangers of unsealed mineshafts.

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

This whimsical sculpture garden is a local treasure.

A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.