The hottest place on the planet! Furnace Creek was originally called the Greenland Ranch. (The name was changed in 1933, after the world record was recorded).
Until now. After a yearlong investigation by a team of climate scientists, the World Meteorological Organization, the climate agency of the United Nations, announced this fall that it was throwing out a reading of 136.4 degrees claimed by the city of Al Aziziyah on Sept. 13, 1922. It made official what anyone who has soldiered through a Death Valley summer afternoon here could attest to. There is no place hotter in the world. A 134-degree reading registered on July 10, 1913, at Greenland Ranch here is now the official world record.
LINK: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/29/science/earth/death-valley-temperature-record-is-restored.html?_r=0