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

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

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

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

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

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

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

This crumbling little graveyard was saved from the undergrowth by concerned veterans.

This massive solar generating facility in the Nevada desert has been plagued by difficulties.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

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

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.