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

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

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

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

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

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

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

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

The wreckage of a deadly bomber plane crash can still be found near an Arizona peak.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.