This cheery fruit farmer welcomes visitors to a classic roadside emporium.

This is one really big nut.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

A museum dedicated to the life and career of the gifted but controversial general.

Meet 'Big Josh,' the 20-foot-tall muffler man.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

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.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

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

Behold the uncanny sight of the Golden Arches—rendered in black.

These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

Ruins of this late 19th-century mining camp are right on Nevada State Route 266

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