Yavapai County, Arizona
Verde Hot Springs Resort
A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.
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Yavapai County, Arizona
A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.
Roosevelt, Arizona
This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.
Gila Bend, Arizona
A lingering bit of Space Race nostalgia lies in the middle of the desert.
Casa Grande, Arizona
An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.
Mesa, Arizona
These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.
Mesa, Arizona
Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.
Tempe, Arizona
A camera with an ongoing exposure time of 1,000 years.
Phoenix, Arizona
A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.
Phoenix, Arizona
A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.
Phoenix, Arizona
This trippy wonderland is the result of one man's obsessive, decades long passion project.
Glendale, Arizona
This love letter to Poland serves bracing dill pickle soup and plump pierogis.
Peach Springs, Arizona
One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.
Peach Springs, Arizona
In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.
Kingman, Arizona
The world’s first museum dedicated solely to electric vehicles.
Kingman, Arizona
A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.
San Bernardino, California
A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.
Las Vegas, Nevada
This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.
Indian Springs, Nevada
This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.
Amargosa Valley, Nevada
This enormous fiberglass cow near Death Valley National Park once graced a casino roof in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas, Nevada
At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.
Nye County, Nevada
The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.
Tonopah, Nevada
An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.