Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

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

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

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

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

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

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

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

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

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

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

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

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