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The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

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

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

This simple highway curve has become a comedic pilgrimage site.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

The house where the pulp fiction writer and Conan the Barbarian creator lived.

Legend says the horned lizard spent 31 years sealed in a time capsule before he was discovered alive.

A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

This lake sits on an estimated 4 million tons of salt.

Where Santa Claus held up a Texas bank and started a statewide manhunt.