Places GeneralWaffles Wants to Go

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

Unopened beer cans are left at this monument to honor the Navy men who lost their lives during a training mission.

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.

Despite the name, it's unclear if this small depression in northern Nye County was actually caused by falling space debris.

In 1954, two enormous earthquakes occurred just minutes apart, resulting in prominent scarps that extend for miles along the range fronts.

Ruins of the original wooden flume that carried water to Virginia City are still visible high on the Virginia Range.

A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.

Equipment used to mine silver and lead has been preserved in this almost-ghost town in northern Nye County.

The precious-metals strikes dating back to the 1860s are now mostly inactive, but this area has become the United States' only domestic source of lithium.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

An abandoned mine serves as a stark memorial of when mercury was a valued strategic metal.

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

Named after an outlaw who used the basin as a hideout.

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

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.