Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

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

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.

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

This little-used trail winds through the highest mountain range in central Nevada with sections around 10,000 feet.

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

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.

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.

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

Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.

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.

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

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

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

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

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

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

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

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

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

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