All Places in Nevada

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

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

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

Many believe these images represent interstellar lifeforms.

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

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

An attractive alpine lake at 8,400 feet that is accessible via a paved road.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

One of the best places to dig—some say on the planet—for six different types of chalcedony.

A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.

Named after an outlaw who used the basin as a hideout.

The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.

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

A lovely park home with a few interesting guests.