Places exploringwithesch Wants to Go

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

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

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

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

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

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

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

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

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

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

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

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

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

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

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

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

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

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

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

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.