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

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

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

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

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

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

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