This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.

Peek inside this sandy mailbox and you'll spot kids' letters to Santa.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

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.

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

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

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

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.