Once the largest gravity dam in the world.

A small, red building located along a state highway where the 18th Vice President made shoes in his youth.

Malcolm X's house during his most formative years faces an uncertain future.

This 19th century mansion façade adorned with immigrant patriotism is a symbol of Louisville’s history.

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

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

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Many generations of travelers have passed through the steep, smooth walls of this canyon.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

This little-used trail winds through the highest mountain range in central Nevada with sections around 10,000 feet.

As fallout from an irrigation project, a formerly cottonwood-lined stream is now a sandy, desolate, post-apocalyptic channel lined with weathered stumps and tumbleweeds.

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.

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

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

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

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

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

Make a wish at what might be America's only Catholic shrine to a sinner.

This quiet chapel was central to a community of settlers who reclaimed an abandoned fort.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

From working out of his garage to the James Beard semifinals, one Tucson baker has kept his fan base—and his grains—local.

Legend says train robbers stashed their gold within the depths of this unusual cave.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.