Places HootEye Wants to Go

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

A land of debatable treasure.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

A cosmic pit stop just beyond the notorious Area 51.

This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

An iron monument on the 120th meridian as surveyed, one of only four marking the boundary between Nevada and California north of Lake Tahoe.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

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

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

The original building of a mining school endowed by one of the barons of the Comstock Lode now houses a museum of earth science and mining history.

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

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

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

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

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

You might recognize this historic Oregon mansion from its appearance in 'The Goonies.'

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.