This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.

Colorful sedimentary rock layers provide opportunities both for hiking and photography.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

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

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

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

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

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

This Colorado fire station has been in continuous operation for more than a century.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

More than a century old, this trading post resides in the Navajo Nation.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

A bronze statue pays tribute to the Hungarian player and coach, one of soccer's first international superstars.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.