A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

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

A land of debatable treasure.

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

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

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

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

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