A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

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

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.

Once disputed as the largest sundial in the world.

Well-preserved ruins in the Pine Grove Hills of western Nevada.

Concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland which were used to align spy satellites.

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

A difficult trail leads to interesting ruins in a remote canyon in the Toiyabe Range.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

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

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

Once a staging site for World War II munitions.

This silver-mining camp has been active intermittently from the 1860s to the present.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

One of the best-preserved early 20th-century ore-processing mills in Nevada is maintained in a state of arrested decay.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

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

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.