This church was constructed by a shipbuilder and designed like an upside-down boat.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

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

An unusual waterfall in the Santa Rosa Range, within the Great Basin of Nevada.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

The strongest earthquake in Nevada's recorded history left these spectacular breaks along the west front of a range in central Nevada.

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

A remote, little-known natural arch in granite in the desert of northwestern Nevada.

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

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

Many generations of travelers have passed through the steep, smooth walls of this canyon.

Mine your own precious stones.

A spectacular but little-known slot canyon in extreme northern Nevada, with sheer walls nearly 500 feet high and a perennial stream.

In the little-known Pine Forest Range in northwestern Nevada, a natural lake of glacial origin.

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

This landmark is a central figure in the Nez Perce origin story.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

The steepest tramway in North America provides stunning views of the out-of-the-way Wallowa Mountains in northeastern Oregon.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

This large maar crater in Oregon is the bigger brother to Hole in the Ground.

Massive crater in central Oregon.