A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

A lovely park home with a few interesting guests.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

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

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

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

A land of debatable treasure.

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

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

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

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

A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Named after an outlaw who used the basin as a hideout.

The lost ruins of the forgotten ferry lie hidden beneath the silt.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.