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

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

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

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.

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

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

This is one really big nut.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

Erroneously called the world's tallest flagpole, this landmark is devoted to "good neighborliness."

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.

Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.

Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian badlands.