Unopened beer cans are left at this monument to honor the Navy men who lost their lives during a training mission.

Well-preserved ruins in the Pine Grove Hills of western Nevada.

The limestone composition of this spectacular arch makes it unique to the region.

A spring and an enigmatic cabin lie in a ponderosa pine forest in the heart of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.

A remarkably well-preserved stage stop from the late 19th century in a remote part of Nevada.

A large, remote national monument highlights the typical geologic structure seen in Nevada.

Red ocher pictographs survive in this tufa rock shelter on the shore of an ancient lake.

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

A well-preserved set of ruins not far from Lovelock.

A large wave-cut shelter, a major archeological site, overlooks the dry basin of Winnemucca Lake.

Despite the name, it's unclear if this small depression in northern Nye County was actually caused by falling space debris.

A difficult trail leads to interesting ruins in a remote canyon in the Toiyabe Range.

In 1954, two enormous earthquakes occurred just minutes apart, resulting in prominent scarps that extend for miles along the range fronts.

This silver-mining camp has been active intermittently from the 1860s to the present.

A well-preserved example from a 1920s network of airmail navigation arrows sits near Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.

A spectacular slot canyon at the northern edge of Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

The strongest earthquake in Nevada's recorded history left these spectacular breaks along the west front of a range in central Nevada.

Two well-preserved charcoal kilns survive in a remote part of eastern Nevada.

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

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

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.

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

As fallout from an irrigation project, a formerly cottonwood-lined stream is now a sandy, desolate, post-apocalyptic channel lined with weathered stumps and tumbleweeds.

Colorful outcrops and cliffs just north of Reno provide a scenic backdrop for hiking and mountain biking.