Colorful outcrops and cliffs just north of Reno provide a scenic backdrop for hiking and mountain biking.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

As fallout from an irrigation project, a formerly cottonwood-lined stream is now a sandy, desolate, post-apocalyptic channel lined with weathered stumps and tumbleweeds.

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

The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art.

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

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

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

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

A remote, little-known natural arch in granite in the desert of northwestern Nevada.

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

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

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

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

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

Unopened beer cans are left at this monument to honor the Navy men who lost their lives during a training mission.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

Two craters, which probably erupted within the last 1,500 years and are now filled by alkaline lakes, represent Nevada's youngest known volcanic activity.

A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.