An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

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

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 set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

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

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

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

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

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

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

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

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

On the edge of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, these rock formations create an eerie landscape.

Hidden inside a gift shop that doubles as a museum, this gargantuan yo-yo can only be operated by crane.

According to legend it was a nap taken under this tree that kicked off the California Gold Rush.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.