A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

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

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.