Coyote Springs, Nevada

Coyote Springs is a notional community, around a real golf course. In 1988, the BLM transferred around 40,000 acres of open land here to the Aerojet Corporation, in exchange for protecting 5,000 acres of land the company owned in the Florida everglades. Aerojet originally intended to build a rocket manufacturing and testing site here, but instead it sold the land to developers to make a planned community. It was to be one of the largest master-planned developments in the nation, with 160,000 homes, schools, casinos, retail, ultimately covering 65 square miles of virgin terrain, costing upwards of $30 billion. So far though, no houses have been built. The golf course, designed by Jack Nicklaus, opened in 2006, but the rest of the development has been stalled due to financial problems, political corruption charges, and challenges from environmental groups.