If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

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

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

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

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

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

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

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

The smallest country in the world.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

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

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