This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

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

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

This striking church was built from a Frank Lloyd Wright design more than a decade after the master architect's death.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

Millions of years of erosion created the feature for which this rock formation is aptly named.

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

The handsome statue is a tribute to the post riders who traversed 52 miles of tough Arizona terrain.

This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

A giant mascot, a car bomb, and the mafia mingle in the history of a defunct restaurant chain.

Arizona's first government hub is a rustic cabin now preserved as part of a historical museum.