A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

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

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

A land of debatable treasure.

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

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

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

The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

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

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

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

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.