This massive solar generating facility in the Nevada desert has been plagued by difficulties.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Once a staging site for World War II munitions.

A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.

These massive concrete foundations and smelter chimney bricks still smell like smoke after a century.

St. Mary in the Mountains is the oldest active Catholic church in Nevada

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

This larger-than-life portrait in Nevada's silver boomtown is decorated with over 3,000 silver dollars.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

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

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A campy fiberglass statue welcomes visitors to this small town in central California.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

This massive statue of John Muir on the side of a California highway was carved from a redwood tree.

Far out of its comfort zone, this sequoia was planted as a symbol of the connection between Visalia and its neighboring national park.

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

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

The last remnant of a tree that helped prove to the world that sequoias are real—and they’re spectacular.

The first lookout in Yosemite.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.