The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of Navajo Nation.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

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

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

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

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

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

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

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