Places heathersfour Wants to Go

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

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

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

A private Las Vegas horse ranch adorned with whimsical artwork.

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

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

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

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

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

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

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

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

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

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

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

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

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

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

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

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

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