A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

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

This unique art installation used boiler tubes from a decommissioned power plant to resemble Antelope Canyon.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Walk through the sets of old western films at this small museum in Utah.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

Nature has shaped this drainage tunnel into the digestive tract of a mighty beast.

Named after an outlaw who used the basin as a hideout.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

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

A land of debatable treasure.

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

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

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

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

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

The Southern California pop sounds of surf and sand were born right here.

Giant origami crease patterns engraved in Santa Monica intersections may even be visible from space.