WTF?

Just outside of Beatty is the ghost town of Rhyolite, NV. Population: long gone.

Just before you enter town, you are greeted by probably one of the most bizarre and misplaced sights you have ever seen, if you are not expecting it.

As the last picture indicates, I eventually discovered what the hell I was looking at. It turns out to be the Goldwell Open Air Art Museum.

Good thing, too. Because I was totally freaking out. Imagine coming across this stuff in the desert where the silence is deafening and you are the only person for miles. Freaky, y'all.