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An unexpected sinkhole in a desert flat within Gold Butte National Monument.

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

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

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

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.

Drive up a paved road into "Nevada's Yosemite" for exquisite views and mountain hiking in an alpine setting.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

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

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

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.

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

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

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

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

This arts and culture cultural center explores the diverse cultural heritage of the American West.

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.

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