Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

Dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

A ghost town revived by hippies and wanderers throws its own special brand of holiday parade.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall but rather lightning.

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

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

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

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

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.