An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

The unique circular corral belonging to the “Cattle King” of Oregon.

With a crest near 10,000 feet, this treeless fault-block mountain in eastern Oregon provides stunning views and spectacular glacial landforms.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.

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

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

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

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

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.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

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

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.