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A rare cluster of alien-like plants grows along a dusty highway.

Famous and forgotten figures lie beneath the faded headstones and decaying planks of wood.

The last Americana on Route 66.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.