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

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

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

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

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The largest outdoor art gallery in the Northwest United States.

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

This massive mall has hundreds of shops, an amusement park, and a history of deadly amusement attractions.

These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.