Where Nor'easters go to die.

These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

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

This mostly abandoned shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

These markers are used to determine the ground stability of the Strip.

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

A land of debatable treasure.

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

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

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

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

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

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

As fallout from an irrigation project, a formerly cottonwood-lined stream is now a sandy, desolate, post-apocalyptic channel lined with weathered stumps and tumbleweeds.

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

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