The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

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

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

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

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

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

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

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

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

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Mine your own precious stones.

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.