A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

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

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

This childhood throwback has hundreds of arcade games and pinball machines to transport you back in time.

The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This museum honors the first Spanish land grant in California which is still in the hands of the original owner's family.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.