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

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

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

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

A land of debatable treasure.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

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

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

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

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

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

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

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

A private Las Vegas horse ranch adorned with whimsical artwork.

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

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

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

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

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

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