Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

This Stonehenge-inspired solar calendar stands alongside a landfill, in the middle of the Nevada desert.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

This former mining railroad is one of the best-preserved short lines in North America.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

An unexpected sinkhole in a desert flat within Gold Butte National Monument.

An unusual slot canyon in the Aztec/Navajo Sandstone has a cross-section like an inverted old-fashioned keyhole.

Harder layers in colorful sandstone weather out as prominent “fins" and even more intricate and bizarre shapes.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

This is one really big nut.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

The first Protestant church in Arizona and only Gothic Revival style adobe church in the world.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

This Old West hotel, the longest in continuous operation in the state of Arizona, is claimed to be haunted.