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

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

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

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

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

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

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

This enormous fiberglass cow near Death Valley National Park once graced a casino roof in Las Vegas.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

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

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

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

A unique collection of old miners' cave homes carved in to the hillside cliffs near Death Valley.

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

A cosmic pit stop just beyond the notorious Area 51.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

A glimpse of a waterfall is reached by a steel catwalk along a slot canyon located in an Ouray city park.