Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

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

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

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

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.

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

This silver-mining camp has been active intermittently from the 1860s to the present.

Once a staging site for World War II munitions.

Two craters, which probably erupted within the last 1,500 years and are now filled by alkaline lakes, represent Nevada's youngest known volcanic activity.

This Stonehenge-inspired solar calendar stands alongside a landfill, in the middle of the Nevada desert.

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

A bookstore dedicated to the intersection of comedy and art.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.