Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

If it wasn’t for an innovative use of quilts during a crisis, the city of Panguitch might not exist today.

The current Eureka County Courthouse replaced an all-wooden structure that had previously been an ice-skating rink.

A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

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

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

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

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

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.

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

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

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

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

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

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

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

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

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

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

This massive statue of John Muir on the side of a California highway was carved from a redwood tree.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.