Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

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

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

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

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

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

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

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

Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

A land of debatable treasure.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.