Places alaskanmoss Wants to Go

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

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

Collapsed charcoal kilns in the Spring Mountains of southern Nevada.

At one time, it was the second deepest mine shaft on the planet!

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

Abandoned mine site with interesting artifacts to explore, including a 4-stamp mill.

The only United States mine for magnesium carbonate has been operating continuously since the 1930s.

The site of an improbable and ill-fated attempt to use dammed floodwaters for irrigation.

A granite primate with a view.

Once a famous outpost for purchasing saddles and spurs, this museum preserves the art, craft, and style of the American cowboy.

This dry lake bed was once an emergency landing strip for military and experimental aircraft.

An unusual double cinder cone with a bent oval crater, in the Lunar Crater Volcanic Field.

An improbable water gap where the West Walker River, paralleled by a state highway, crosses the Singatse Range between Smith and Mason Valleys.

The remote graves of a Scottish family who died of thirst while attempting to reach St. George.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s airmail navigation network.

Unopened beer cans are left at this monument to honor the Navy men who lost their lives during a training mission.

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

It bustled briefly in the late 1860s, but little is now left at this stage stop on the Hamilton/Pioche Stage and Freight Road

These massive concrete foundations and smelter chimney bricks still smell like smoke after a century.

Tatsuo Miyajima shares a philosophical appreciation for life with the latest human technologies.