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These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Etched into a dry lake bed, this massive directional indicator is accurate without magnets.

The first steel dam in the world and the only one still functional in the United States.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

This comprehensive collection features Native American artifacts dating back centuries.

A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.

Inside this store, a mysterious statue draws visitors from the world over.

Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

The remote resting place of a notorious Wild West outlaw whose death is shrouded in mystery.

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

This Old West prison built into the side of a cliff was said to be inescapable.

Once a year, at exactly 11:11 a.m., this monument comes to life.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.