This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

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

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

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

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

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

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

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

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

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

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

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

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

This century-old confectioner's outlet store was plucked right out of the Seattle World's Fair.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.