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

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

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

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

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

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

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

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

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

Mine your own precious stones.

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

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

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

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

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

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

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

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

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.