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

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A land of debatable treasure.

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

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.

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

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

The huge granite obelisk that towers over a small California town.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

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

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

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