A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Colorful outcrops and cliffs just north of Reno provide a scenic backdrop for hiking and mountain biking.

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

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

Hidden in a hotel parking lot is a strange historical plaque erected by an obscure fraternal society.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

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

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

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

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

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

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

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.