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

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

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

A land of debatable treasure.

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.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.