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The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

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

The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

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

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

Formerly frequented by Hollywood stars and now open for tours.

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

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

A land of debatable treasure.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.

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

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

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

The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants