This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

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

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

Harder layers in colorful sandstone weather out as prominent “fins" and even more intricate and bizarre shapes.

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

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

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.

The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.

In the little-known Pine Forest Range in northwestern Nevada, a natural lake of glacial origin.

One of the few remaining indigenous petroglyph sites in Nevada.

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

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

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

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

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

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

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

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