Places hopemch Wants to Go

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.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

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

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

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

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

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

Wayne Newton's sprawling estate is now open for visitors to catch a glimpse of his "heart and soul."

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

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

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

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

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

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

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

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Mine your own precious stones.

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

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.