Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

An urban laboratory.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

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

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

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

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

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

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

California's oldest existing theater building hosted an impressive cast of celebrities, including hosting Mark Twain's first lecture.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

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