Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

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

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

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

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

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

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

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

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