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

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

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

This silver-mining camp has been active intermittently from the 1860s to the present.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

A land of debatable treasure.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

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

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

Equipment used to mine silver and lead has been preserved in this almost-ghost town in northern Nye County.

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

Well-preserved ruins in the Pine Grove Hills of western Nevada.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

An abandoned early 20th-century gold mine in a spectacular setting overlooking Bridgeport Valley and the Sierra Nevada.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.

The smallest country in the world.

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.