Drive up a paved road into "Nevada's Yosemite" for exquisite views and mountain hiking in an alpine setting.

Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.

A spectacular but little-known slot canyon in extreme northern Nevada, with sheer walls nearly 500 feet high and a perennial stream.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

An unusual slot canyon in the Aztec/Navajo Sandstone has a cross-section like an inverted old-fashioned keyhole.

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

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

A hidden slot canyon in the southern Nevada desert makes an unexpected oasis and scenic hike.

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

Thousands of glyphs created by an unknown culture decorate the rock formations of this canyon.

Many generations of travelers have passed through the steep, smooth walls of this canyon.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

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

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.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

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

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

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