Reno, Nevada
Pyramid Lake
This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.
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Reno, Nevada
This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.
California City, California
The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.
Dayton, Nevada
The smallest country in the world.
Las Vegas, Nevada
One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.
Las Vegas, Nevada
The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
Tonopah, Nevada
There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.
Beatty, Nevada
A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.
Inyo County, California
The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.
Inyo County, California
Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.
Inyo County, California
"Only the devil could play golf here."
Goldfield, Nevada
Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.
Tehachapi, California
Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.
Esmeralda County, Nevada
This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!
Bodfish, California
One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.
Jamestown, California
Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.
California
The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.
Inyo County, California
A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.
Big Pine, California
Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.
Mono County, California
Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.
Tulare, California
A B-17 bomber stands as a memorial to the residents of Tulare County who served in World War II.
Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.
London, England
There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.