Formerly frequented by Hollywood stars and now open for tours.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

Many generations of travelers have passed through the steep, smooth walls of this canyon.

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

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

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

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

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

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

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

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

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

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.

This unassuming building houses one of the world's most extensive collections of cars created by automotive legend Carroll Shelby.

Once a staging site for World War II munitions.

This silver-mining camp has been active intermittently from the 1860s to the present.

Despite the name, it's unclear if this small depression in northern Nye County was actually caused by falling space debris.

In 1954, two enormous earthquakes occurred just minutes apart, resulting in prominent scarps that extend for miles along the range fronts.

Equipment used to mine silver and lead has been preserved in this almost-ghost town in northern Nye County.

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.