A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

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

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

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

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

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

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

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

A crumbling cathedral condemned by an earthquake.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

Costa Rican accommodation resembles a crash site, but with a nice balcony.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.