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The oldest hotel in Nevada.

Many believe these images represent interstellar lifeforms.

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

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

Harder layers in colorful sandstone weather out as prominent “fins" and even more intricate and bizarre shapes.

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

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.

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

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

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

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

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

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

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

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

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

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

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

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

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

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

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

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.