A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

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

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

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

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.