A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

This hidden amusement park is a magical escape for kids and kids-at-heart.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

A land of debatable treasure.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

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

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.