Places amathison86 Wants to Go

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

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

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

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

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

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.

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

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

A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.

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

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

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