This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

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

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

Colorful sedimentary rock layers provide opportunities both for hiking and photography.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

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

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

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.