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

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

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

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

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

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

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.