This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

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

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

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

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

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

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

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

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

Some of the most unusual (and in some cases, disgusting) flavors of soda imaginable.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.