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The oldest hotel in Nevada.

Many believe these images represent interstellar lifeforms.

One of the few remaining indigenous petroglyph sites in Nevada.

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

These markers are used to determine the ground stability of the Strip.

This Stonehenge-inspired solar calendar stands alongside a landfill, in the middle of the Nevada desert.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

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

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

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

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

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

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

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

Formerly frequented by Hollywood stars and now open for tours.

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

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

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

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

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

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.