Known around town as the giant ping pong ball or the golf ball house, Area 66 is a private residence built in the 1970s as the Dinosphere restaurant and night club. This 40-foot-diameter geodesic dome structure, now known as Area 66, is impossible to miss from the highway and, as such, often draws in tourists and passersby who want to take a picture with the home and shop in the little corner store.

You can't actually go inside of the house, but it is fun to look at from the outside nonetheless - or at least it seems to be since many tourists do just that.

The structure was first built as part of an aggressive real estate project. The developers went so far as to send out promotional materials for the homes they hoped to construct showing happy would-be residents waterskiing and enjoying other amenities that were never to be built. The project went belly-up quickly and the giant dome, meant to generate press for the development, was the only thing that had been built at that point.

After sitting empty for years, an eccentric Wyoming resident named Hank Schimmel bought the giant gold ball in 1981 and concerted it into a private home for his wife Ardell as a birthday present. The couple renamed the home, which has three levels, Area 66 and decorated it with small aliens and other curious objects. The home as 3,400 square feet of living space, including a kitchen, living room, bedrooms and several bathrooms.