10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

An urban laboratory.

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

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

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

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

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.