A hidden slot canyon in the southern Nevada desert makes an unexpected oasis and scenic hike.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.

An unusual slot canyon in the Aztec/Navajo Sandstone has a cross-section like an inverted old-fashioned keyhole.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

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

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

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

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

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

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.