This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

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

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

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

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

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

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

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

This small West Virginia park is a land trust holdout against mountaintop removal mining.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

Visit a replica of the estate where Aaron Burr allegedly plotted a treasonous scheme against the United States.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

Train cars and railroad artifacts abound at this restaurant devoted to railway history.