Ghost hunters have fueled up at this diner for more than a century.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

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

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

Wayne Newton's sprawling estate is now open for visitors to catch a glimpse of his "heart and soul."

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

A well-preserved example from a 1920s network of airmail navigation arrows sits near Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Welcome to a feel-good American drugstore, in the classic sense of the term.

Keen eyes can find the Disney influences throughout this treasure trove of a tiki bar.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

This Stonehenge-inspired solar calendar stands alongside a landfill, in the middle of the Nevada desert.

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

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

A perfectly preserved small-town pharmacy and soda fountain that opened in the early 20th century and closed in the 1980s.

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

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.