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Imlay, Nevada

A roadside world of concrete, bottles, hubcaps, and sculptures built by one desert visionary.

Rachel, Nevada

A tiny desert inn turns Area 51 lore into alien burgers, souvenirs, and UFO photo ops.

Dayton, Nevada

A self-proclaimed micronation in a Dayton neighborhood stamps passports and bans contraband onions.

Beatty, Nevada

Ghostly diners, a pink giant, and a penguin-toting prospector haunt an outdoor desert museum.

Tonopah, Nevada

Thousands of clowns fill a working desert motel beside Tonopah’s old cemetery.

Gerlach, Nevada

A misbehaving geothermal well built a rainbow-colored geyser on private ranchland.

Goldfield, Nevada

A desert “forest” of planted and stacked cars serves as Goldfield’s ever-changing art gallery.

Gerlach, Nevada

A mile of desert stones carries jokes, advice, shrines, and found-object folk art.

Amargosa Valley, Nevada

A hot desert cave shelters a fish found nowhere else and even registers distant earthquakes.