Harder layers in colorful sandstone weather out as prominent “fins" and even more intricate and bizarre shapes.

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

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

Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

Mine your own precious stones.

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

A land of debatable treasure.

The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

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

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

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

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

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

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

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

A mysterious local has been dressing the child's grave for decades.

The final resting place of a famous 19th-century murder victim whose identity is still a mystery.