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.

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

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

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Giant telescope mirrors built in a spinning furnace under a college football stadium.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

One of Los Angeles's first murals once vibrantly depicted the dangers of United States imperialism.

A non-native grove of 241 redwoods in Southern California.

The restored estate of a wealthy rancher was once at the heart of an unprecedented legal victory.