In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

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

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

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

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

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

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

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.