The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

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

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

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

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.

Mine your own precious stones.

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

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

A replica that won't float away.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

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

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

This statue of an obscure comic strip hero stands as a tribute to patriotic service and a cautionary tale about embracing fads.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.