Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

A spectacular but little-known slot canyon in extreme northern Nevada, with sheer walls nearly 500 feet high and a perennial stream.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

A hidden slot canyon in the southern Nevada desert makes an unexpected oasis and scenic hike.

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

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

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

This arts and culture cultural center explores the diverse cultural heritage of the American West.

This former shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

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

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

A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.

Thousands of glyphs created by an unknown culture decorate the rock formations of this canyon.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

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