Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Mine your own precious stones.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

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

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

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

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.