Places goodepeggy Wants to Go

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

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

A land of debatable treasure.

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

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

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

The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

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

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

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

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

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

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

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

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

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

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

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

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

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