Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.