After a long, stormy stretch of desert road, we reached Death Valley Junction. This lonely place, where highways 190 and 127 meet, hosts aged buildings with definite character, most abandoned. Many of the town's buildings were erected in the 1920s, when the Pacific Coast Borax Company wanted to create a town for its workers. But when mines closed, the population dwindled, leaving behind a ghost town.





In this town stands the Armagosa Opera House and Hotel, which is rumored to be haunted by workers from the town's heyday in the 1920s. Marta Becket, a dancer and artist, fell in love with the abandoned place when she drove through in the 1960s. She restored the place, and still performs in the Opera House.



As we left town, we saw wild horses grazing on the open desert floor.