The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

A ghost town revived by hippies and wanderers throws its own special brand of holiday parade.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A famous flea market artist's studio that's full of odds and ends.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

One of few remaining antique carousels with stationary animals in the U.S.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

Storage units with a wartime past.

This small piece of railroad history sits behind the parking lot of a chain grocery store.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.