This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

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

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

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

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

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

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

Murder scene memorialized in perpetuity by grisly obelisk.

The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

The only land territory disputed between the U.S. and Canada.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

A rare opportunity to drive across the ocean floor.

This monster fiberglass crustacean stands watch over the self-proclaimed "lobster capital of the world."

A converted cattle farm is now a hub of art and theater surrounded by nature.

A rustic house where intellectuals and investors tried to put an end to Cold War nuclear armament.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.