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.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

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

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.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

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

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

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

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

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

The largest dinosaur trackway in North America is tucked away among this canyon's ghosts and archaeological gems.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

This mysterious petroglyph evokes the ancient swastika symbol but was later vandalized with the more troublesome Nazi one.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.