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

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

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

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

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

The smallest country in the world.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

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

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

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

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

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

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

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

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

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

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

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