Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

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

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.