Places Atomic Redhead Wants to Go

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

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

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

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

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

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.