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Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

Mine your own precious stones.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

The largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere is a spectacular sight.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.

This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

A small but industrious mining operation that allows visitors to touch precious gems while they are still in the rock.

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

One man's fulfilled dream of living on an artificial island made of recycled plastic bottles.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Abandoned outpost once home to a murderous tyrant.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

A stunning silver lining to global warming's gloomy cloud.

Island of trash twice the size of Texas floats in the Pacific.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Former island in the Aral Sea used to be a top-secret Russian bio-weapons facility.