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.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

The last Americana on Route 66.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

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

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

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

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

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

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

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

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

This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

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

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.