An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

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

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

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

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

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

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

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

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

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

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.