The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

This giant tower beacon was a key navigation tool for pilots delivering mail amid the night skies.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Supposedly Satanic numbers adorn this preserved submarine sail.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

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

An ancient Phoenician citadel once stood at the site where Queen Dido first landed, according to legend.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.