The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

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

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

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

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

A land of debatable treasure.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

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

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

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.