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

Red ocher pictographs survive in this tufa rock shelter on the shore of an ancient lake.

These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.

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

An abandoned mine serves as a stark memorial of when mercury was a valued strategic metal.

The birthplace of Las Vegas is now preserved as a historic and natural area.

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

Two craters, which probably erupted within the last 1,500 years and are now filled by alkaline lakes, represent Nevada's youngest known volcanic activity.

Colorful outcrops and cliffs just north of Reno provide a scenic backdrop for hiking and mountain biking.

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

In the little-known Pine Forest Range in northwestern Nevada, a natural lake of glacial origin.

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

A remote, little-known natural arch in granite in the desert of northwestern Nevada.

This rest area is also home to a remarkable petroglyph site.

A cosmic pit stop just beyond the notorious Area 51.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.

A small shop filled with history, mystery, folklore, and more.

An unusual waterfall in the Santa Rosa Range, within the Great Basin of Nevada.

On the side of Highway 50 East, between Carson City and Dayton, Nevada, sits a giant metal spider made from a vintage Volkswagen Beetle.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

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

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.