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Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

A whimsical display of massive metal sculptures made from recycled materials.

The first radio telescope dedicated to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

A Tibetan Temple and Buddhist organization just off the beaten path in Northern California.

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

This enormous fiberglass cow near Death Valley National Park once graced a casino roof in Las Vegas.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.