Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

A land of debatable treasure.

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

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

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

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

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

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.

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

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

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Giant steel and concrete dinosaurs near Route 66 invite passerbys into a mineral shop.

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, and other Hollywood actors have resided in this picturesque Route 66 hotel.