Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

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

Once a staging site for World War II munitions.

This massive solar generating facility in the Nevada desert has been plagued by difficulties.

Despite the name, it's unclear if this small depression in northern Nye County was actually caused by falling space debris.

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

In 1954, two enormous earthquakes occurred just minutes apart, resulting in prominent scarps that extend for miles along the range fronts.

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

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

The precious-metals strikes dating back to the 1860s are now mostly inactive, but this area has become the United States' only domestic source of lithium.

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

Equipment used to mine silver and lead has been preserved in this almost-ghost town in northern Nye County.

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.

An abandoned mine serves as a stark memorial of when mercury was a valued strategic metal.

This rest area is also home to a remarkable petroglyph site.

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

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

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

This former mining railroad is one of the best-preserved short lines in North America.

Many believe these images represent interstellar lifeforms.

Two craters, which probably erupted within the last 1,500 years and are now filled by alkaline lakes, represent Nevada's youngest known volcanic activity.

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

An internationally-recognized dark sky sanctuary lies in northern Nevada, near the Oregon line.