A folk-art cottage and hotel straight from a Slavic fairy tale.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

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

Ruins of the original wooden flume that carried water to Virginia City are still visible high on the Virginia Range.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

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

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

This store decorated with Japanese and underground pop culture items has been the centre of Barcelona alternative fashion scenes for more than a decade.

A bookstore dedicated to the intersection of comedy and art.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.