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.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.

The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

The smallest country in the world.

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

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

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

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

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

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

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

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

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.