Places happygrim Wants to Go

A spectacular but little-known slot canyon in extreme northern Nevada, with sheer walls nearly 500 feet high and a perennial stream.

Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

A professional special effects makeup artist’s collection of horror creatures and one-of-a-kind recreations on display in downtown Boulder City.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

An unusual slot canyon in the Aztec/Navajo Sandstone has a cross-section like an inverted old-fashioned keyhole.

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

A hidden slot canyon in the southern Nevada desert makes an unexpected oasis and scenic hike.

Thousands of glyphs created by an unknown culture decorate the rock formations of this canyon.

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

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

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.