Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

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

An unexpected sinkhole in a desert flat within Gold Butte National Monument.

The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

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

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

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

This Stonehenge-inspired solar calendar stands alongside a landfill, in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Drive up a paved road into "Nevada's Yosemite" for exquisite views and mountain hiking in an alpine setting.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

A blast of nostalgia awaits visitors to this miniature indoor raceway.

Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.

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

A spectacular but little-known slot canyon in extreme northern Nevada, with sheer walls nearly 500 feet high and a perennial stream.

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

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

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.