Red ocher pictographs survive in this tufa rock shelter on the shore of an ancient lake.

A small shop filled with history, mystery, folklore, and more.

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."

A perfectly preserved small-town pharmacy and soda fountain that opened in the early 20th century and closed in the 1980s.

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

A professional special effects makeup artist’s collection of horror creatures and one-of-a-kind recreations on display in downtown Boulder City.

Drive up a paved road into "Nevada's Yosemite" for exquisite views and mountain hiking in an alpine setting.

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

The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

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

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

The smallest country in the world.

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

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

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

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.