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

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

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

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

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

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

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

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

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.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.