This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

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

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

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

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

A mine in the Sierra Nevada that produced nothing but barren quartz.

A Native American petroglyph, the site of an emigrants' waystation, and the ruins of an early 20th-century sheep camp are all found at this crossroads.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

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

A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

Once a staging site for World War II munitions.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

The Paul Bunyan of the steel industry.