Despite worries about my car (which did just fine), this was a fascinating place to visit. You can see the lowest place in the western hemisphere, which is 282 feet below sea level, and feel the salt water there. You can also sweat with tourists who kept comparing this to the Dead Sea in Israel and some other god-forsaken place in China.
One place I did not visit at Death Valley was a place they call "The Race Track". It's a dirt road to get there and I wasn't willing to put my car through that but it sounded fascinating too. It's a place where large boulders have been moving on their own across a plain for thousands of years, leaving grooves in the rock which show a changing path over time. I'd read about this and definitely plan to see it if I go back with a rented car.
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