This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

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

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

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

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

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

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

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

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

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

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

The highest point in Montana is as rugged and singular as the state itself.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.