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This mostly abandoned shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

Abandoned in 2009, this once popular resort destination now stands frozen in time.

Well-preserved ruins in the Pine Grove Hills of western Nevada.

An abandoned early 20th-century gold mine in a spectacular setting overlooking Bridgeport Valley and the Sierra Nevada.

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

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

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

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

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

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

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

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

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

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