Places donnatalarico Wants to Go

A land of debatable treasure.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

The smallest country in the world.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

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