A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

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

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

This Stonehenge-inspired solar calendar stands alongside a landfill, in the middle of the Nevada desert.

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

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate.

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

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

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

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

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

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

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

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

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.