Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

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

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

360-degree virtual reality chamber physically immerses scientists into their data.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

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

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

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

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

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

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

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

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

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.