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

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

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

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

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

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.

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

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

Where the Model T was made and the assembly line was invented.

Weighing 30,000 pounds, this monument represents Detroit's first industrial era.

What was once the largest NFL stadium.

A restored 114-year-old railroad station heralded as the most photographed depot in the United States.

World's largest Christmas store.

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.