Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

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

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

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

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

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

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

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

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

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

Mexican food and folk art.