Places Chezy Wants to Go

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

An attractive alpine lake at 8,400 feet that is accessible via a paved road.

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

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

How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.

Two craters, which probably erupted within the last 1,500 years and are now filled by alkaline lakes, represent Nevada's youngest known volcanic activity.

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

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

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

Anyone can play paleontologist at this quarry that has Cambrian fossils galore.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

A Native American petroglyph, the site of an emigrants' waystation, and the ruins of an early 20th-century sheep camp are all found at this crossroads.

This Old West prison built into the side of a cliff was said to be inescapable.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

The remote resting place of a notorious Wild West outlaw whose death is shrouded in mystery.

This rural museum is home to more than 50 local desert reptiles and the world's largest snake bite kit collection.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

A short interpretive trail about one of the first human cultures in North America.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.