Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

More than 25 fully functional scale replicas of famous lighthouses dot the shores of Lake Havasu.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.

A glimpse of a waterfall is reached by a steel catwalk along a slot canyon located in an Ouray city park.

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

This Chinese-style quartz sundial was saved in its final hour.

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

The oldest operating cemetery in Denver is the eternal home of some of the Centennial State's most famous residents.

A river runs through this remote valley in a very unexpected way.

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.