This former shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

Located near the U.S.-Mexico border, this park remembers the famous raid of General Francisco “Pancho” Villa and his soldiers.

This roadside sculpture garden in New Mexico venerates Mother Earth and outsider art.

This replica of the Indian spiritual master Meher Baba's tomb stands unfinished in the New Mexico desert.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

For decades, the largest tungsten producer in the U.S. was located in a spectacular setting in the high Sierra Nevada, with some of the workings over 11,000 feet.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

A relic of the region's once booming timber industry.

A new monument to an old grave that was uncovered during the rebuilding of a California ghost town.

A volcanic cone that formed over 600 years ago.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.