These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

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

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Mine your own precious stones.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.