The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

This school building was an extravagant show of wealth for a boomtown that mostly faded in the following decade.

Nevada's second-newest state park offers camping, fishing, hiking, and river float trips.

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

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

This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.

One of the best places to dig—some say on the planet—for six different types of chalcedony.

A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

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

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

A land of debatable treasure.

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

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

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

A cosmic pit stop just beyond the notorious Area 51.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.