Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

This larger-than-life portrait in Nevada's silver boomtown is decorated with over 3,000 silver dollars.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

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

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

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

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

On the side of Highway 50 East, between Carson City and Dayton, Nevada, sits a giant metal spider made from a vintage Volkswagen Beetle.

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

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

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.