An important Mayan religious and trading center dating back to 200 BC.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

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

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

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

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

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

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

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

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

The current Eureka County Courthouse replaced an all-wooden structure that had previously been an ice-skating rink.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

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