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

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

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

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

The current Eureka County Courthouse replaced an all-wooden structure that had previously been an ice-skating rink.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

Red rock "fangs" jut out of the desert near the Extraterrestrial Highway.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

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

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

A volcanic spur of Lake Tahoe wrapped in Washoe sacred stories and road tunnels

This larger-than-life portrait in Nevada's silver boomtown is decorated with over 3,000 silver dollars.

A bizarre example of collective behavior resulted in thousands of shoe prints in Vegas parking lots.

A unique shopping and dining park created from old shipping containers and filled with local businesses.

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

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

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

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.