On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A kaleidoscope gallery and steampunk emporium named for a pioneering journalist.

A maze-like landscape of globular rocks surrounding two Arizona lakes.

This Prescott institution is widely considered the oldest bar in Arizona.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

The world’s first museum dedicated solely to electric vehicles.

This abandoned open-pit copper mine features stunning turquoise mineral pools and excellent rock-hunting opportunities.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

A mining camp built around an unexpected occurrence of silver.

An unprepossessing storage reservoir in southern Utah has a checkered past.

A surviving concrete arrow from an early-20th-century airmail-navigation network overlooks a reservoir.

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

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

A land of debatable treasure.

A well-preserved example from a 1920s network of airmail navigation arrows sits near Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.

The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

Formerly a lovely white sand beach this Hawaiian stretch is now a trap for countless tons of trash.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.

On one of the tiniest islands in the Caribbean lies a nearly 300-year-old syangogue.

The world's largest floating loon bobs in the lake to kick off an annual festival.

Nicknamed the "Grand Canyon of the North," this open-pit mine in Minnesota has a much shorter history.