This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

This former mining railroad is one of the best-preserved short lines in North America.

For over a century, it has been a tradition to raise a flag at the top of this 450-foot sandstone pillar on the 4th of July.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

California's longest-running tourist attraction is a stump.

This large chunk of dark rock is a relic from an ancient volcanic eruption.

Although it also features red, orange, and variegated cliffs of Navajo Sandstone, this state park is often overshadowed by its more famous neighbor.

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

Harder layers in colorful sandstone weather out as prominent “fins" and even more intricate and bizarre shapes.

A remarkably well-preserved brick chimney from a smelter dating to the 1860s is all that remains of this former mill.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

This trench, some 2,300 feet long, is only the most prominent relic of a largely forgotten episode of placer mining on the east slope of the Sierra Nevada.

This rest area is also home to a remarkable petroglyph site.

The site of an improbable and ill-fated attempt to use dammed floodwaters for irrigation.

A large, remote national monument highlights the typical geologic structure seen in Nevada.

An unexpected sinkhole in a desert flat within Gold Butte National Monument.

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.

A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.

Named after an outlaw who used the basin as a hideout.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

One of the best-preserved early 20th-century ore-processing mills in Nevada is maintained in a state of arrested decay.

A volcanic cone that formed over 600 years ago.