The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

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

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

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

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

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