This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

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

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

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

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

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

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

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

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

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

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

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

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

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

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

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

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