Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

An unprepossessing storage reservoir in southern Utah has a checkered past.

A mining camp built around an unexpected occurrence of silver.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Opened in 1911, this small shop is the oldest ongoing establishment in St. George.

Ancient volcanic activity made this into an exciting rockhounding site.

Although it also features red, orange, and variegated cliffs of Navajo Sandstone, this state park is often overshadowed by its more famous neighbor.

This church was constructed by a shipbuilder and designed like an upside-down boat.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

A cosmic pit stop just beyond the notorious Area 51.

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

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

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

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.