The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

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

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

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

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

According to the legend, this strikingly beautiful hill has miraculous healing powers.

A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Where you can photograph wild black bears without worrying about becoming dinner.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

This Minnesota-shaped forest is actually located in the state it is shaped like.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.