Etched into a dry lake bed, this massive directional indicator is accurate without magnets.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

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

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

Leaking natural gas never stops burning on this hill, making it an infinite inferno.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.