This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

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

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.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.