All Places in Nye County

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

Under the right conditions, rocks will move across this dry lakebed, leaving trails behind them.

Equipment used to mine silver and lead has been preserved in this almost-ghost town in northern Nye County.

Red rock "fangs" jut out of the desert near the Extraterrestrial Highway.

An unusual double cinder cone with a bent oval crater, in the Lunar Crater Volcanic Field.