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Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

Some locals believe the fabled lost gold of General Yamashida is hiding somewhere beneath the city.

Smoked mummies housed in mountainside caves.

In her ancestral home, one chef preserves ancient Filipino recipes and serves up traditional, home-cooked food to history-loving foodies.

This stunning 15th-century royal hill fort preserves the age of chivalry in Rajasthan.

A former bastion of Rajput chivalry, this massive hill fort is the site of legend and tragedy.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

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.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.