Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

The last Americana on Route 66.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

These four islands right offshore have waterfalls, colorful lights, fancy buildings, and a secret purpose.

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

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

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

This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

The smallest country in the world.

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

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

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

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

A land of debatable treasure.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Mediums from a psychic utopian community lead a trippy VR journey on a parked desert bus.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.