The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

The smallest country in the world.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.

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

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

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

One of the best places to dig—some say on the planet—for six different types of chalcedony.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

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

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.

Under the right conditions, rocks will move across this dry lakebed, leaving trails behind them.

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.

A land of debatable treasure.

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.

This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.