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

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

A huge collection of rocks, gems, and crystals.

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

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

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

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

At night, a grove of towering redwood trees growing through the pavement block out all light from the so-called “Dark Park” of Madrone Avenue.

Come for the records, stay for the retro pinball machines.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.