Mexican food and folk art.

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

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

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

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

Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.

The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.

These structures were inspired by both Native American shelters as well as, strangely, an ice cream shop.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

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

Equipment used to mine silver and lead has been preserved in this almost-ghost town in northern Nye County.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

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

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

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

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.