One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.

A volcanic cone that formed over 600 years ago.

A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

A remote, little-known natural arch in granite in the desert of northwestern Nevada.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

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

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

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

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

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

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

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

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

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

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

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.