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

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

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

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

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

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

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

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

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

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

Beehive charcoal kilns and slag deposits mark this late 19th century camp centered on a smelter.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

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

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