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

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

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

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

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

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

An unusual slot canyon in the Aztec/Navajo Sandstone has a cross-section like an inverted old-fashioned keyhole.

This mostly abandoned shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

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

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

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.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

This remote camping site offers incredible stargazing opportunities.

This ranch on the banks of the Rio Grande is home to a little-known LGBTQ history of Mary Cabot Wheelwright, Marie Chabot, and two-spirit Navajo weaver Hastiin Klah.

A tribute to one of the last great singing cowboys.

Get up close to a life-sized model of a spent-fuel dry cask and learn how Arizona’s largest power plant operates in a desert.

A beautiful piece of history in a very remote area that allowed ranchers to move their herds.