Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

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

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

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

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

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

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.