A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

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

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

This former shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

A private Las Vegas horse ranch adorned with whimsical artwork.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.