This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.