An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

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

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

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

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

The Zalud family experienced a number of tragedies in one decade, giving rise to rumors that the 19th century house is haunted.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.