With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

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

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

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

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

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

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