Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

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

In one of the hottest parts of the Mojave Desert, shallow bedrock forces the typically dry Mojave River to the surface in this canyon, providing a vital oasis for humans and wildlife.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

Colorful sedimentary rock layers provide opportunities both for hiking and photography.

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

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.