death valley 2022

20 Places

Inyo County, California

Artist's Drive

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

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Inyo County, California

Badwater Basin

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

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Death Valley, California

Wildrose Charcoal Kilns

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

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Rhyolite Ghost Town

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

Tom Kelly's Bottle House

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

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'Rhyolite's District of Shadows'

A land of debatable treasure.

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Albert Szukalski's Last Supper

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

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Inyo County, California

Devils Golf Course Landscape

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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Inyo County, California

Scotty's Castle

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

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Yucca Mountain Repository

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

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Amargosa Valley, Nevada

Devil's Hole

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

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Inyo County, California

Ballarat Ghost Town

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

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Inyo County, California

Teakettle Junction

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

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Inyo County, California

Sailing Stones of Racetrack Playa

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

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Inyo County, California

Ubehebe Crater

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

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Johannesburg, California

Randsburg

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

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Fish Rocks

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

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Bodfish, California

Silver City Ghost Town

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

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Bodfish, California

Remington Hot Springs

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

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Keeler, California

Cerro Gordo

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

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