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

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

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

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

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

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

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

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

This large pile of traveler-curated rocks by the dry lakebed is a longstanding tradition on the Old Mojave Road.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

Built as a schoolhouse in 1914, this Mission-style building has also served as a dancehall, a library, an Army canteen, and now a cultural museum.

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

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

The lost ruins of the forgotten ferry lie hidden beneath the silt.

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.