14 Strangest Things Found in American Deserts
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- From the million dollar Atari Video Game stash, to the most remote PRADA store in the world, these are 14 STRANGEST Things Found in American Deserts !
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8. Atari Video Game Stash
In Southeastern New Mexico, Atari filled a landfill full of their games cartridges from the 80’s including games like ET, Asteroids, warlords, and centipede. These games didn’t succeed and Atari had to do something with them. Investigators were hired in an attempt to find the games and in 2014 the games were finally uncovered in the landfill near the atari factory after months of planning and investing 50,000 dollars. Once they were found over 900 copies , the games sold on Ebay like hotcakes and even the smithsonian was interested in some copies.
7. The Petrified Forest
Would you believe there’s actually an entire forest of fossilized trees in Arizona!? A long time ago, this modern day desert was covered logs that were naturally transported by a river of now extinct trees on the continent of Pangea. Each of these large rocks that are formed on the ground are actually fossils from the late Triassic Period about 225 million years ago. The went through a process known as petrification when their living cells were filled with minerals, like silica and quartz which helps the wood retain much of its original form. It’s believed that some of these trees were over 200 feet tall when alive
6. Abandoned Prada Store
This fancy designer shop was set up right in the middle of a desolate area in Western Texas. This was actually a permanent art installation, and not a random place to do shopping. Scandinavian Artists, funded the project and wanted to see how the store would look after spending a long period of time in the middle of the desert. The installation was quickly robbed of all the designer products like you could probably imagine only a few days after it was installed. The store was quickly repaired with stronger windows to prevent theft of the handbags and shows inside.
5. Flintstones Bedrock City
Ever wish you be apart of a cartoon sometimes and see what it would look like in reality. The designers of this Flintstones themed attraction park had the same idea in mind but it didn’t turn out to be quite as popular as they had hoped. This is located in the desert just northwest of Flagstaff, Arizona and it’s delightfully creepy. It’s was abandoned for quite some time but it looks like it’s recently been slightly renovated with addition of the slide on the dinosaur's tail.
4. Utah Evaporation Pools
If you were hiking through the Utah desert might think you were slightly hallucinating when you came across these evaporation ponds. However you certainly would not want to take a swim here because these waters actually contain salts with potassium. The ponds provide a brilliant blue light in contrast of the barren Moab desert that surrounds them. When the sun evaporates the pond, what’s left over are potassium crystals which are then sold. The different shades of blue are actually due to how much of the water
3. Death Valley Castle
What’s a huge castle doing in the middle of the desert in possibly the hottest place on Earth? Scotty’s Castle is a two story Spanish mission style villa, located in Northern Death Valley. It’s known as Scotty’s Castle and it was built by Alberty Johnson who was convinced there was possibly gold in Death Valley somewhere by prospector Walter Scott. The claim turned out to be false however the two managed to become friends anyways. The mansion went unfinished due to the stock market crash in 1929 but tours are available for those who are intrigued by this place.
2. Titan Missile Museum
Where else in the US can you visit a 9 ton nuclear warhead? Ok the real one was moved in order for it to become a museum, missile that was used for training excersizes looks quite real! This is the only megaton missile silo that’s actually open to the public from the Cold War and it offers a truly mysterious experience for those who want to visit it. It’s hidden away in the vast, Arizona desert but was decommissioned in 1982 by Ronald Reagan. People can visit the living quarters of the crew who were ready to bring on an apocalypse if asked to do so. You can also spend the night here for the right price. You can even check out the key hole where people would have turned to key for it to be launched!
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Oldest North American Petroglyphs
The Petroglyphs found in the Northern Nevada Desert, is home to North America’s oldest known petroglyphs that are believed to date back to at least 5,600 BC but some can be as old as 14,000 years. That predates the pyramids by at least 3000 years! The rock art is extremely fragile and efforts are being made to protect them. Some of them depict geometric patterns, while others depict a spear and an antelope. Who were the ancient people who left this prehistoric artwork and what were they trying to convey?
When you have been lost in the desert for some days, a prada sale can be refreshing
jafs65 I
love your sense of humor, jafs65. sadly probably completly lost on the un-living.
No kidding... After sweating it up in the desert, a spritz of Luna Rossa Sport, and I'm ready to fight off more vultures.
Carolina1 RIP sorry you died
I would shoot a music video there.
The Desert Wears Prada
Alex Viper888 lmao
😅
After a few days the Desert got mugged apparently. This is why we cant have nice things.
Alex Viper888 lmao 😂
Alex Viper888 ü do you get californa üalk into tonight.
Something about the pool and Prada store is so aesthetic, I love it.
i love it too, i hope to eventually achieve the pure state of pool and Prada! ohm,ohm...
Aesthetic isn't an adjective.
Yeah, it's aesthetic because that was the entire point... they're works of art...
Ugh you ruined it now
aesthetically sublime...
"The secret swimming pool has been destroyed by a bunch of jerks" 😂😂
Jerks 😂
Ohhh jerks 🤣
T.L B... yeah I think it was Wikipedia who leaked the location so now it cause destroyed by retards
T.L B Buncha joiks
Let's hope they have children just like them. And suffer the rest of there lives at the hands of there little $hit's.
The weirdest thing in an American desert, is a while city, it's called, Las Vegas.
Lazar 😱
Or Phoenix
@@damionplumb6496 how so?
while city. Short or long while? Medium, perhaps. Not so unusual.
In the 1820s the land was full of plant life and meadows, hence the name, Las Vegas..
what reason would the pentagon call that phone in the middle of knowhere
Mr. Beastly Gaming they didn’t, the the nut case that stayed there was probably just rambling.
Darth MGTOW o
disney kids channel i know but why would anyone get a phone boots number ..is that even a thing
They KNEW he was there. They said what the he'll you doing
To check up on the aliens if they're doing alright
Imagine being lost in the desert and you find a Prada outlet
Niaomiツ 😂
Anyone notice that it got louder when he started the Clown Motel thing
here in mexico, where I live, you will find mostly dead bodies in the desert, so this list isnt that creepy or scary.
Exactly.
Rubina - Here in Las Vegas a few have "disappeared" in the desert also.:)
Rubina Resendez come to USA w me
Rick & Zack Explore Offroad usa huh? Try the fucking outback for missing people 😂 Aussies constantly going missing out there
Suk Mike Hok - I spent a bit of time over the years in Oz. I can believe it :)
You sound like you're hiding your identity of Glenn quagmire
Lmfaooo underrated
Lmao!
giggidy
Now I can't unhear it 😂
oh god that’s all i hear now
So basically the desert is just a place for artists to fuck around in ?
I drove by that Prada store on my way to Marfa from Big Bend. It was full of idiot girls stopping traffic and taking selfies.... the plague of whack instagram models is everywhere.
The "clown motel?" How about a "no way in hell hotel?"
Manny Martinez lmao chill guy
Manny Martinez, well that was uncalled for.
Lynn Larson I love it! Pay no mind to these morons - don't bother replying!
hatednyc
thanks. But i never pay much mind to people on the other side of a keyboard. simple words on a screen don't affect me or stress me.
However a clown themed motel... THAT stresses me out! eek!
American horror story comes to mind
Near Rodeo New Mexico, out in the middle of the desert there was an ornate railroad station that was sealed up after they took up the tracks sometime in the 1930's. I discovered it during a backpacking trip in the early eighties and it was like it a time capsule with the phone and telegraph equipment left in place, timetables and other papers left in their racks, etc.
Don Brynelsen sick
The Prada store was shown in an episode of the Simpsons (Season 30)
I think the phone booth Is cool
***** f*king auto correct
KING T I ducking hate autocorrect
***** yeah but it's fixed so now you can stop worrying about it and get a hair cut
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It's been removed for over a decade. Look up the "99% invisible" podcast on the mohave phone booth. They talk with the guy who started the craze.
Very interesting video. I love the eastern California and Nevada deserts for their creepiness and lovely scenery. I am very fond of deserts in general, having grown up in the coastal region of the Pacific Northwest. Number 4, the Utah evaporation pools, was very interesting; hope to visit there one day.
The pool coordinates are, 34.4494,-116.7239
thank you!
Was on a 10 day, 6,000 mile solo motorcycle camping trip when I drove past that Prada store. I really did think I was hallucinating. Turned around & parked right in front of it & took some photos. Amazing.
I've seen the Prada store as I have traveled cross country and to Mexico several times and I was always soooo baffled, I couldn't and didn't understand what a little luxury store was doing in the middle of absolutely no where until I Googled it one day and found out it's actually as he mentioned- a permanent art installation.
I thought the Prada store thumbnail was just photoshopped click bait so I was pleasantly surprised!
If I went to that clown hotel, I would probably have a heart attack
XxcrashxX same
XxcrashxX you would have a heart attack in the house im living in...
XxcrashxX I've been there
Circus circus is kind of the same thing (in Las Vegas) when I entered the Circus Circus hotel, I kind of felt a little weird
4:06 "located within the desert of eastern Texas near Amarillo" Amarillo is in the panhandle, also Eastern Texas is swamp, not desert.
And he pronounced it “Armarillo”
E. Texas is pine/woods!
Also the towns name means yellow in Spanish
I read that right when he said that..
Jimmy Freeman yes! thank you
I found the evaporation ponds really weird but at the same time im absolutely loving the blue colours and they are just formed soooooo perfectly
2:10
love that volume in crease
😂
Do you have 80HD?
@Latest News I was joking. Look at the top post.
my fat ass thought it said desserts
brett radley 😂😂😂😂😂
brett radley 😂😂😂😂😂
brett radley fat shit
brett radley Lmfaoooo so did i
brett radley a hahahahaga that's funny
I'm from New Zealand and I'll loove to c all of these.....one day I will
mussell nz mussell i live in the mohave desert in Arizona and this is still cool to me
one day
mussell nz mussell Driving through the desert gets old after a couple of hours.
mussell nz mussell same
mussell nz mussell g'day mate u wearing jandals or thongs
well the clown hotel sounds pleasant must have some nice room service but I might bring my 44. Magnum
The Loki Theory .44*
The Loki Theory that's one big ass bullet.
The Loki Theory
no no no, get a 500 magnum. that's much bigger.
Yeah, I think I'll be bringing a 500.
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I love this guys voice...soothing.
I grew up in Alamogordo NM and when I was a kid, I was going through some of my dads old stuff and he had at least 30 copies of ET Atari cartridges. I wish I would of held onto them. I think him and his friends must of dug them up when he was a kid. So awesome to learn that.
That pool is near where I live!!! It's like 30 minutes away
David Keck II yes. I know a lot of people that go there during summer time and throw huge parties
Woah! Cool dude
frank fuerte is it actually ruined
+Zoe Papaleo yeah a bunch of jerks destroyed it LOL
Climber dude I might go back and fix it
5:01 is the where the thumbnail starts
Thx bro
I clicked on this video because I actually saw the Prada and it was on the thumbnail, I thought it was just some sort of prank
Chase Garner : SAME 🙌🏻🤣✌🏻‼️
You actually saw the thumbnail huh?
It’s real I’ve been there
I actually lived close to this about 5 minutes from there
Natanael Aguilar I live in Fort Davis.
The Prada reminds me of those fake stores in “The Interview” 😂
Very interesting article all said and done, enjoyed watching that! Greetings from the UK.
I've been to the Prada store and it's pretty cool but it has a weird vibe to it
I did a little research on the phone booth and it was removed by Pacific Bell (the telephone company) on May 17 2000 at the request of the National Park Service
The NPS has spent a lot of time and money destroying a lot of the history of the Mojave. Started when they turned it into the Mojave Preserve.
I wanted to call it before I saw ur comment
I did call it, back in ‘99. I was at my Mom’s house and I put her on. The guy on the other end flirted with her! :)
Diane The Wolfpanther howd u manage to get the number
Nevada desert is a tad monotonous. Hills, a long valley, more hills, another long valley, rinse repeat.
Ray Giordano who knew!!
I've heard that there's a bit of sand over there as well.
Ray Giordano and a lonely courier
niko -imec- theres some raiders too
Hills, sand, the most well known top secret military base on the face of the planet, sand, hills
I'd rob that Prada store
Meme Wannabe Im with you! Lets go!
Fbi OPEN up!,
According to the video it has been robbed they had to put thicker glass
probably just knock off items in there!
Maybe ram a cheap car and hope the things are not counterfeit..
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A few of the details I discovered hard to believe.
Will there be another video clip appearing quickly, hope so.
The phone booth has been gone for many years now.... Removed May 17, 2000. The booth itself was last in some artists apartment in New York.
TheCoil proof??
Chango5Voces ur gay
Intresting thing that these "ghosts","aliens" and so on..appears mostly in America,for example here in Romania it's only a single creepy forest in which people dissapear. But if we talk about unusual things..they always happen 98% in America,how comes that?
Romania is about the size of a Midwestern state. That's why
Wasn't Transylvania in Romania? You can't get much creepier than old Vlad himself :)
I completely agree, haha... but they did mention that "alien crash" in Antarctica in their other vid! XD
Ass
... says the person from where Dracula's from. LOL. What a tool.
ive stayed at the clown motel!!! for a vegas to reno off road race! the peple in that town are as close to hills have eyes as it gets...
slaw jeser yeah, I agree. Gotta be something in the water lmao
Noah Frederick What water? in the desert? hardly much.
Rain thunder The water in Tonopah comes from Ralston Valley, 15 miles away.
People in Tonapah are good and caring souls. Your urban bias is showing :)
Who else came here for the thumbnail✋🏼
Why would you think nearly 20 foot long arrows would be leading you to something Secret?
@@mokumizu4318 now it makes even less sense!
Yeah like...hey...over here...this way to the secret thing the giant concrete arrows are pointing to... They should have made them glow IN the dark if that was the case!!! 😂😂😂
The Flintstone park is interesting but I cant see how the owners of it thought they were going to turn a profit in the middle of nowhere.
billy barkly it's actually right outside of the Grand Canyon. They surprisingly get a good flow of tourist all year long.
It's all about American "kitsch" associated with the roadside attractions. It's just a short detour off Route 66
That's not creepy, it's on the main road to the south rim of the Grand Canyon... only about 15 million people a year drive past there...
why Aliens land only in america? 😂😂😂
No you are though. Haha got him guys.
Aliens were randomly looking for places to dump nuclear waste. They were under the impression USA liked nuclear waste, what with it's testing and all.
The American dream
sAcK aLy there is a reason aliens land mostly in the continent of America........
If aliens wanted not to be found they'll probably land in a third world nation that's mostly isolated or has a desert not America. The most watched country in the world with cameras everywhere.
Damn... who wanna rob the Prada store with me?
I live like 80 miles away from it, It has security cameras around it.... it still gets tagged with graffiti on the regular though... haha
Me
5:02 I live not even 1 hour from there and pass it every day to go to school, it's located batween Van Horn Texas and Valentine and it's actually a really really popular area, there's always tourists taking pictures and putting locks on the fence, there's also been many famous people who visited the area as well.
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Several of the details I discovered hard to believe.
Will there be an additional video clip appearing soon, hope so.
The Flintstone place seems cool
See Wikipedia Flintstone House in Hillsborough CA.
That's my kinda town. I wouldn't mind being Mayor there. Just kick back and relax with a/c
of course have Diablo sammich and a dr pepper
I went there as a teenager with my parents. It was cool.
There is also a Flinstone village in South Dakota.
The Flinstone place is open. It’s a campsite. Costs 5 dollars to see the town.
1:50 theres a ufo in the backround
it could be photoshopped tho
mary lewis I noticed that to probably photoshopped though
Biz Buz yep its the only thing blurry in the photo aswell
Called a cloud
You can see a better view of it at 1:53.
Seb1437 _ Not a fucking cloud you brainless piece of shit, its photoshopped
I live in Tucson as and my brother knows where the secret swimming pools location is...I went tower last week for the 28 time and it's in perfect shape
StarAllianceGaming you have cordinates??
Amazing video!
They spent over $50,000 to find the buried stash of discarded Atari game cartridges, and then sold them on ebay? Seems kind of pointless in terms of profit... That said, I've been to the petrified forest. Have some very, ah, amusing memories from there.
the atari games are et. i was raised in that town its alamogordo, nm
THOSE GAMES ARE WORTH A LOT!!!!! You don’t know the price of each game they sold, and the Smithsonian would also pay a lot for them
@@jewelleechiara2394 lol not too much since they probably don't work? 😂
Holt Burdette collectible
nothing like petrified wood!
Putting a Prada store in the middle of the desert is supposed to be art? It's more like stupid. And it's not even a replica, the store has actual Prada merchandise; what a waste.
There are lots of cute white girls who go there to take pictures.
Area 51 for some reason is called "Homey Airway" on google maps.
Javen Antone The government wants to hide Area 51 from the public.
I know but thats its called Homey Airway and its hiden by lots of mountain ranges.
Google maps is pretty weird. They don't show the North Pole for some reason....South pole? ok. North? Nope!
Angela M Santa needs some privacy
Angela M because the north pole isnt technically on land
I still cant figure out why in the world you would put a Prada in the middle of the desert with expensive products waiting to be taken with little security. It isn't Hollywood.
It's a piece of art dummy, not a real store.
robby rensenbrink
He did say some stuff was taken by thefts so they had real stuff in it. They have bags in there.
Great content 👍🏻 I love it!
Could you imagine being tired, hurt, starving and dehydrated to find a random payphone in the desert? You think either I'm seeing things or I'm saved. You run to it and are thrilled to see it's real to only realize you don't have 25 cents to make a call. 😂
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Nguyen Minh Nhat That would be a great video to watch
Yep that right, government always have good things to see but they always hiding
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Im a bit disappointed, i thought it said 'Dessert' not 'Desert'... I got EXTREMELY excited...
; - ;
3:26 that actually happened in Australia too, there was a phone booth installed in the middle of the desert for an asbestos mining town, the town was abandoned in the 90s and Telecom Australia cut off the town's phone and mail services when everyone left.
Great video! I've always wanted to know about those colorful pools of water seen from above the desert while on an airplane.
Interesting...i lived in desert since 1997 to now so now this is my bucket list to see
the secret swimming pool is the strangest one, why would the pool be made there?
Sonic Cinema it's just for art!
i know, but why there?
Sonic Cinema For adventure
Sonic Cinema Art
But why there? I know it's are but why put it in the middle of a desert?
Haha, I used to go through the desert all the time before for school in NV, but yeah, it can be kind of creepy at times. Especially some of the old towns that look like ghost towns, but have people living in them surprisingly. I also hate that clown motel too, had to pass it every time I made the trip either to and from school lmao.
You are very brave!
On a "creepiness" scale of 1 to 10 I rate the Nevada deserts a 1. Hollywood on the other hand is a strong 11 :)
i'm from round mountain and the clown motel is concerning in real life lmao
Aly D creepy clowns...
Can I marry you?
That was a super cool video!!! New sub here
Nice to see the Petrified Forest here. I had been there as a child, nearly 40 years ago!
So much Weird things in Nevada
I saw the Death Valley castle
Louka Seitz i was there in scottys castle
Major Styles #metoo
That phone out in Lanfair Valley came in handy back in the days before cells. Too bad nuts and jackoffs ruined it for the rest of us....who used it and needed it.
Omg I've been to the Cadillac Farm, The Petrified Forest, and the Prada Store. There were so many locks on the gate in the back.
i remember i saw that prada store on the way to a summer camp, lol
...........I thought that said desserts..
I need to stop being fat
BrendanTheGent same
Lmao sameee
Same😂😂😂
BrendanTheGent hilarious!
Same and same
The weirdest one is the abandoned Prada store
Godhogman I've been pass that store, I was going to marfa Texas which is 30 miles away from there
Sam the bomb was it still open
Anyone else think the commentator of the video sounds like the cartoon character Smithers from Bart Simpson 😂
The clown hotel is totally haunted. You have to stay there as there is no other option. Thanks for including it!
Great video
More like arrowzona desert
**ba dum tss**
Hurricane Katrina?
That's a real knee slapper
THAT was a terrible voiceover job. So many words were mispronounced, I lost track. And he voiced it like a cartoon character on speed.
Sounded like he had a broken nose
Arm-a-rillo! HA!
+tea sis Yes because saying "Amarillo" is really difficult. /s
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damn jym chill out. you're probs a millenial too 😂
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The clown motel looks awesome, Thanks for sharing it. May be neat if you did a video on just that
3:00 people went digging it up in search of the ET video game for Atari which is the Holy Grail of Atari video games bcuz of its indieness if you want to say. They made a movie about it. Look it up. It's pretty cool.
Searching the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter...
If a phone box rings in the desert does it get answered?
Depends if a crazy guy with hands and ears is there to hear it
It was taken away I believe lol. So, not likely
@@HipposAreDeadly HipposAreDeadly
dazmanshears I don't get your question, if someone is there i will get answer.
If the phone box rings in the vacant desert....does it make a sound ?
is a call OF DUTY advanced warfare in multiplayer the hotel clown
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Oooooo deserts I thought he said deserts as in the food you eat at the end
KEVIN MAXIMILIANO OCAÑA VELAZQUEZ what?
KEVIN MAXIMILIANO OCAÑA VELAZQUEZ, yeah, it reminded me straight away
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Have driven on the off-road trails past the potash mine pools many times. Quite gorgeous in person.
When I was a child I always wanted to open my own shop and pictured it like the prada store in the middle of nowhere lol it’s so weird seeing this 😂
I love when I see videos of people asking the military staff at A51 what they're doing or why they're stopping them. Well what they're doing is patrolling and guarding a military Air Force installation, like every other base in the US and the world. Why are they stopping you? Maybe because you're sketchy as fuck and trying to get into and record an Air Force base. If there's aliens, cool we're not alone in this universe. If not? Oh well. Go on with your day.
samuel river made my day
Aliens are real, look up Phil Schneider. He worked for the gov on underground bases including Dulce. He was later found dead with something wrapped around his neck and all his lecture material including alien metals, photos, and notes were missing. His friend Ron Rummel was also found dead in the woods. Ron was working on the Alien Digest that covered many things including how aliens use humans as food and recyclable body parts. Gary McKinnon also hacked into NASA computers and found many things including a picture with a cigar shaped UFO.
If Gary McKinnon did indeed hack into the NASA computer database he should be in prison
am i the only one who read "american deserts" and thought ice cream, pie, cake?
Sad how people's spelling is so poor that they automatically thought of the wrong one-- like not even that they were confused as to which one the title meant, but rather that they automatically thought specifically of the wrong one.
No, because I’m not stupid.
yes
You should check the spelling next tome
Nigga “tome”
That's a creepy Wilma.
Great Video ...thanks
I live in Marfa, and it's not an abandoned Prada store..it's Art display. And it's out side a town called Valentine Texas.
Richard Gonzales they said that in the video lol
You people think this guy sounds bad? Wait until you hear the guy's voice from Chills Channel. (The top 10 scariest/spooky/ghost etc. videos)
I want to punch my screen even just thinking about it.
Thanks for that, lol
Lol I know this is nothing compared to chills.
Dude Ive been to the Prada store there.
Out in the middle of nowhere LOL
People are complaining about his voice but I’m fine it’s kinda you know kinda sounds like younger or something but it’s fine some people have different voices jeez and that just makes you seem like a brat so if you don’t want to hear his voice just go somewhere else watch something else
Bye nice video I liked
ItsTwinkle agreed...hes quick and to the point, who cares if his voice is nasally.. 😔
This was awesome - so many weird things
You & Chills should colab. Would be interesting to hear the people screaming ‘no stop’