A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

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

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

This former shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

This arts and culture cultural center explores the diverse cultural heritage of the American West.

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

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

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

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

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.