One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

On the side of Highway 50 East, between Carson City and Dayton, Nevada, sits a giant metal spider made from a vintage Volkswagen Beetle.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

This silver-mining camp has been active intermittently from the 1860s to the present.

This settlement on the original Transcontinental Railroad began by harvesting timber, but transitioned to a forgotten 19th-century industry: harvesting ice.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

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

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

This crumbling little graveyard was saved from the undergrowth by concerned veterans.

This massive solar generating facility in the Nevada desert has been plagued by difficulties.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.