A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

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

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

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

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

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

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

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

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

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

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

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

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

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.