Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

This was once the home of Gahan's Saloon, Denver's most storied speakeasy.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

The spot where the namesake of the Douglas fir met his mysterious end on a Hawaiian volcano.

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

More than 2,000 species of tropical plants call this nature preserve and sanctuary home.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

This unusual lava tube spouts seawater during high surf.

A true treehouse near Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

This roadside stop between Goblin Valley is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

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

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.