One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

Exhibiting the tallest structure of its type in Nevada, this massive mining complex is frozen in time.

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

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

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

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

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

A hidden slot canyon in the southern Nevada desert makes an unexpected oasis and scenic hike.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

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

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

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

This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

Mine your own precious stones.

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.

This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water

A century-old miner's quarters turned mansion.