A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

An enormous image of Utah's salt flats made entirely from tape.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

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

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

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

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 historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.