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

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

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

Once a staging site for World War II munitions.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

One of the best-preserved early 20th-century ore-processing mills in Nevada is maintained in a state of arrested decay.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

The current Eureka County Courthouse replaced an all-wooden structure that had previously been an ice-skating rink.

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

This massive solar generating facility in the Nevada desert has been plagued by difficulties.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

The precious-metals strikes dating back to the 1860s are now mostly inactive, but this area has become the United States' only domestic source of lithium.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

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

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

One of the best places to dig—some say on the planet—for six different types of chalcedony.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.