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

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

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

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

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

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

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

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

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

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

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

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

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

In 1954, two enormous earthquakes occurred just minutes apart, resulting in prominent scarps that extend for miles along the range fronts.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.