Places happygrim Wants to Go

This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.

The hottest place on the planet.

A pair of gargoyles peer into unsuspecting passengers at Denver’s conspiracy-packed airport.

Colorado's only active volcano last erupted around 4,000 years ago.

Once a staging site for World War II munitions.

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

Red ocher pictographs survive in this tufa rock shelter on the shore of an ancient lake.

A large wave-cut shelter, a major archeological site, overlooks the dry basin of Winnemucca Lake.

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."

Two craters, which probably erupted within the last 1,500 years and are now filled by alkaline lakes, represent Nevada's youngest known volcanic activity.

In the little-known Pine Forest Range in northwestern Nevada, a natural lake of glacial origin.

This rest area is also home to a remarkable petroglyph site.

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

How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.

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

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

An unexpected sinkhole in a desert flat within Gold Butte National Monument.

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

Many believe these images represent interstellar lifeforms.

One of the few remaining indigenous petroglyph sites in Nevada.

One of the best places to dig—some say on the planet—for six different types of chalcedony.

An internationally-recognized dark sky sanctuary lies in northern Nevada, near the Oregon line.

Drive up a paved road into "Nevada's Yosemite" for exquisite views and mountain hiking in an alpine setting.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.