While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.

This abandoned secret city is a crumbling wonderland of Soviet ruins.

These abandoned vessels are destined to be reclaimed by the forest.

This impressively complicated radioastronomy research center was once a tool of Soviet spies.

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

A living museum dedicated to the legendary woodworker and his soulful furniture.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Factory that once supported an entire company town of 350.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

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.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.