Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

The current Eureka County Courthouse replaced an all-wooden structure that had previously been an ice-skating rink.

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

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

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

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

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

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