This 15-story mural celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musician's iconic "At Folsom Prison" album.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

The tallest bridge in California was constructed for a project that was eventually cancelled.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

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

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

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

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