A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

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

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

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

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

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

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

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

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

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

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

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

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.