The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

A bomb shelter and some fireplaces are all that remain of the house Fred Roberts tried so hard to keep standing.

The stone walls of a home built to withstand a California wildfire still stand after more than a century.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

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

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

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 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.

As fallout from an irrigation project, a formerly cottonwood-lined stream is now a sandy, desolate, post-apocalyptic channel lined with weathered stumps and tumbleweeds.

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

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.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

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.

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