Welcome to Ballarat, California, population one. Located in the heart of the unforgiving Death Valley, the former mining supply town has been abandoned for nearly 100 years. Were it not for Rock Novak, the town's only resident, Ballarat would belong to the vultures.

We're a long way from being civilized. We ain't no different than man was, five thousand years ago except we have technology that he didn't. But our characteristics, the way we think, the natural human ways, they're no different than man was five thousand years ago. We haven't changed a damn bit.

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