Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

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

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

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

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

Decor at “Nevada’s Oldest Thirst Parlor” includes Raquel Welch's brassiere hanging from a stuffed moose head.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

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

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

As fallout from an irrigation project, a formerly cottonwood-lined stream is now a sandy, desolate, post-apocalyptic channel lined with weathered stumps and tumbleweeds.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

A land of debatable treasure.

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

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

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.

The only United States mine for magnesium carbonate has been operating continuously since the 1930s.

The second seat of Nye County, still mostly a ghost town, has become a magnet for those looking to live "away from it all."

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.