Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

A private Las Vegas horse ranch adorned with whimsical artwork.

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

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

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

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

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

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.