At night, a grove of towering redwood trees growing through the pavement block out all light from the so-called “Dark Park” of Madrone Avenue.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

This former mining railroad is one of the best-preserved short lines in North America.

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

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

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

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

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

This rest area is also home to a remarkable petroglyph site.

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

An impressive waterfall nestled in the cliffs of Idaho's Snake River Canyon.

This underground cave located in the most barren reaches of Idaho is filled with ice year-round.