This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

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

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

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

California's oldest existing theater building hosted an impressive cast of celebrities, including hosting Mark Twain's first lecture.

This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

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

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

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

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

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

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

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.