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Groom Lake, Nevada

Area 51

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Dumont Dunes

Tecopa, California

Dumont Dunes North Pole

Peek inside this sandy mailbox and you'll spot kids' letters to Santa.

Chicken McNuggest about to be enjoyed at the new McFarthest Spot in NV

Tonopah, Nevada

McFarthest Spot

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

Musical Road

Lancaster, California

Civic Musical Road

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

China Ranch Date Farm

Tecopa, California

China Ranch Date Farm

This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.

Look closely, photographer Cris Benton takes a high altitude kite selfie.

Edwards Air Force Base, California

Edwards AFB Satellite Calibration Targets

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

Atomic Bank Vault

Nye County, Nevada

Atomic Bank Vault

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

Villa Anita

Tecopa, California

Villa Anita in Death Valley

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

Coffin It Up

Pahrump, Nevada

Coffin It Up

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

Sedan Crater, circa 1946–1962

Nye County, Nevada

Sedan Crater

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

Pholisma sonorae aka "Sand Food"

Tecopa, California

Pholisma sonorae aka "Sand Food"

A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.

Looking south to Bald Mountain from the Pine Grove Hills.

Yerington, Nevada

Wovoka Wilderness

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

BREN Tower in 2012.
Permanently Closed

Nye, Nevada

BREN Tower

Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.

Devil's Hole

Amargosa Valley, Nevada

Devil's Hole

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

World's Largest Compass Rose

Edwards Air Force Base, California

World's Largest Compass Rose

Etched into a dry lake bed, this massive directional indicator is accurate without magnets.

Cat with a "mousicle," a frozen block of dead mice.
Permanently Closed

Rosamond, California

The Cat House

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

Carol Highsmith sits on the stage at Amargosa Opera House.

Inyo County, California

Amargosa Opera House

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

20-mule team from viewing platform

Boron, California

Borax Visitor Center

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

Tonopah Mining Park.

Tonopah, Nevada

Tonopah Mining Park

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

The Mizpah Hotel

Tonopah, Nevada

The Mizpah Hotel

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Old Tonopah Cemetery

Tonopah, Nevada

Old Tonopah Cemetery

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

The repository seal.

Nye, Nevada

Yucca Mountain Repository

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

The site today.

Maricopa, California

Lakeview Gusher

Remnants of the United States's largest accidental oil spill still mar a California valley.

Signage Angel's Ladies

Beatty, Nevada

Angel's Ladies Brothel

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

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