Places Opinicus Wants to Go

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

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

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

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

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

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

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

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

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

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

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

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

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

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

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

A land of debatable treasure.

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

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

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.