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

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

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

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

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

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.