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

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

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

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

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

A large, remote national monument highlights the typical geologic structure seen in Nevada.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

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

One of the few remaining indigenous petroglyph sites in Nevada.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.

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

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

This bright and bubbly Palm Springs hotel was the brainchild of an iconic drag queen.

An ancient mineral hot spring sits at the middle of this combination cultural center and spa.

At the western edge of Palm Springs, a rugged desert canyon trail leads to a waterfall at the base of the San Jacinto Mountains.

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Built for an exposition in 1915, these horticultural displays have stood the test of time.

This San Diego museum is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.