Austin, Nevada
U.S. Route 50
Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.
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Austin, Nevada
Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.
Beatty, Nevada
The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.
Las Vegas, Nevada
This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.
Sloan, Nevada
Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.
Dayton, Nevada
The smallest country in the world.
Tonopah, Nevada
There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.
Goldfield, Nevada
Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.
Groom Lake, Nevada
In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.
Tonopah, Nevada
Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.
Wendover, Utah
A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.
Salt Lake City, Utah
The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.
Springdale, Utah
The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.
Corinne, Utah
An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
San Francisco, California
Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.
San Francisco, California
The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.
San Francisco, California
Russian history in San Francisco.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.
San Francisco, California
A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.
San Francisco, California
A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.
San Francisco, California
Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.
San Francisco, California
The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.
San Francisco, California
A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.
California
Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.