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Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

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

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

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

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

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