Submerged lava formations create incredible waterworks.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

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

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

This stone is a marker of one millionaire's personal vendetta against gravity.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

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

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

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."