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

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 enormous fiberglass cow near Death Valley National Park once graced a casino roof in Las Vegas.

A cosmic pit stop just beyond the notorious Area 51.

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

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.

This library is a reader's paradise and a plant lover's dream.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

The last remnant of a tree that helped prove to the world that sequoias are real—and they’re spectacular.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

The larger-than-life art installation at Tampa International Airport welcomes travelers to town.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

A reproduction of a giant humanoid "fossil," a hoax buried locally for construction crews to find and gain national attention.

A Texas-sized secondhand bookstore features 54,000 square feet of books, music, and media.