Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Under the right conditions, rocks will move across this dry lakebed, leaving trails behind them.

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

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

An internationally-recognized dark sky sanctuary lies in northern Nevada, near the Oregon line.

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

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

A tiny slice shop hides down an unmarked hallway in a Las Vegas casino.

The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.

At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.

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

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.