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

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

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

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

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

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

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.