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

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

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

A hidden slot canyon in the southern Nevada desert makes an unexpected oasis and scenic hike.

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

This former shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

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

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

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

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

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

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

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

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

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

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

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

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

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