At the edge of the high desert, California's second-largest natural lake is home to a unique subspecies of trout adapted to its alkaline waters.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

One of the largest fleets of armored vehicles in the world, sitting out in the California desert.

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

A remote, little-known natural arch in granite in the desert of northwestern Nevada.

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art.

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

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

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

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

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

A mine in the Sierra Nevada that produced nothing but barren quartz.

The only remaining hotel on the 1860s Henness Pass route over the Sierra Nevada is being restored.

A little-known, but surprisingly large waterfall on the Little Truckee River in the northern Sierra Nevada.

A Native American petroglyph, the site of an emigrants' waystation, and the ruins of an early 20th-century sheep camp are all found at this crossroads.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

A well-preserved sheepherding camp now lies in the heart of the Granite Chief Wilderness, in the high Sierra Nevada.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Decor at “Nevada’s Oldest Thirst Parlor” includes Raquel Welch's brassiere hanging from a stuffed moose head.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.