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

Nineteenth-century cabins and volunteer re-enactors offer a window into history.

This pristine World War II airfield gives a comprehensive look at atomic development and aviation history.

This former wildlife sanctuary is being transformed into an art park.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

The largest outdoor art gallery in the Northwest United States.

One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

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

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

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

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

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.