The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

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

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

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

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

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

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

Once a bustling cotton factory, this early 20th-century building is now home to a thriving artspace.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.