Home of the world-famous coyote-teeth dentures.

A desert journey through atomic history.

Traces of General Patton’s Mojave Desert training camps for the North Africa campaign.

A remote field of nearly pristine sand dunes in the heart of the Mojave Desert.

Anyone can play paleontologist at this quarry that has Cambrian fossils galore.

An improbable set of attractive limestone caverns forms the centerpiece of Providence Mountains State Recreation Area, in the heart of the Mojave Desert.

These were the largest wind chimes in the world when artist Tom Van Sant created them for a California mall in 1967.

The only mine for rare earth elements in the United States has been intermittently active since the 1950s.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

A 132-year-old telescope continues to keep watch over the night skies above Providence.

See four top-secret US spy aircraft of the Cold War era, including the legendary SR-71 Blackbird and the A-12 Oxcart.

The final resting place of a legendary science fiction author and his fraternal twin sister who died as an infant.

Is this 47.7-mile stretch of highway the longest straight road in the United States?

The second seat of Nye County, still mostly a ghost town, has become a magnet for those looking to live "away from it all."

Colorful sedimentary rock layers provide opportunities both for hiking and photography.

This bronze statue commemorates the strange and beloved mascot of UC Irvine—the only university to be represented by a giant anteater.

Although it also features red, orange, and variegated cliffs of Navajo Sandstone, this state park is often overshadowed by its more famous neighbor.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.