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

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

The classic Atari game's iconic aliens have invaded downtown San Diego.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.