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A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

Red ocher pictographs survive in this tufa rock shelter on the shore of an ancient lake.

A small shop filled with history, mystery, folklore, and more.

In the little-known Pine Forest Range in northwestern Nevada, a natural lake of glacial origin.

One of the few remaining indigenous petroglyph sites in Nevada.

One of the best places to dig—some say on the planet—for six different types of chalcedony.

An internationally-recognized dark sky sanctuary lies in northern Nevada, near the Oregon line.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

A hidden slot canyon in the southern Nevada desert makes an unexpected oasis and scenic hike.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

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

Thousands of glyphs created by an unknown culture decorate the rock formations of this canyon.

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

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

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