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

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

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

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

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

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

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

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

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

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

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

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

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.