Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

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

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

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

A relic of the region's once booming timber industry.

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

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

Many believe these images represent interstellar lifeforms.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

This silver-mining camp has been active intermittently from the 1860s to the present.

The precious-metals strikes dating back to the 1860s are now mostly inactive, but this area has become the United States' only domestic source of lithium.

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

One of the few remaining indigenous petroglyph sites in Nevada.

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

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

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

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.