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

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

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

Drive up a paved road into "Nevada's Yosemite" for exquisite views and mountain hiking in an alpine setting.

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

This Stonehenge-inspired solar calendar stands alongside a landfill, in the middle of the Nevada desert.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

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

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

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

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

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

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

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

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

Formerly frequented by Hollywood stars and now open for tours.

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

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

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.