A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

A former sanitarium where soldiers were sent to recover in the healing waters of hot springs.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

This pristine World War II airfield gives a comprehensive look at atomic development and aviation history.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

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

Once a staging site for World War II munitions.

The second seat of Nye County, still mostly a ghost town, has become a magnet for those looking to live "away from it all."

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

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."

Equipment used to mine silver and lead has been preserved in this almost-ghost town in northern Nye County.

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

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

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

Many believe these images represent interstellar lifeforms.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

One of the few remaining indigenous petroglyph sites in Nevada.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

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

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