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gpers

Can Atlas discover any more about these faces? Who created them?? https://ocmomblog.com/explore-rock-faces-in-the-mojave-desert/

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Calipatria, California

Salvation Mountain

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Added by mbison

Magdalena, New Mexico

The Very Large Array

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

Carlsbad, New Mexico

Carlsbad Caverns

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Sandia Park, New Mexico

TinkerTown

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

Jackson, Wyoming

National Museum of Wildlife Art

One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.

AaronNetsky

Added by AaronNetsky

Arch Canyon Trail

A strenuous, unofficial trail leads to spectacular views in one of America's most remote national monuments.

Tecopa, California

China Ranch Date Farm

This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.

Britta Shoot

Added by Britta Shoot

Lakewood, Colorado

Casa Bonita

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

Added by sparepart23

Middlegate Station

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

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Added by lewblank

Stokes Castle

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

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Nevada State Route 722

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

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Goldfield, Nevada

International Car Forest of the Last Church

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Added by kepiblanc67

Yosemite National Park, California

The Ahwahnee Hotel

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

merhutch

Added by merhutch

Tom Kelly's Bottle House

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

littlebrumble

Added by littlebrumble

Fish Rocks

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

kyleensrude

Added by kyleensrude

Felicity, California

Felicity, California: Center of the World

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

leiris

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Inyo County, California

Scotty's Castle

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

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Inyo County, California

Badwater Basin

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

sebastianopagani

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