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A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Red ocher pictographs survive in this tufa rock shelter on the shore of an ancient lake.

A difficult trail leads to interesting ruins in a remote canyon in the Toiyabe Range.

A well-preserved example from a 1920s network of airmail navigation arrows sits near Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.

Red rock "fangs" jut out of the desert near the Extraterrestrial Highway.

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."

An abandoned mine serves as a stark memorial of when mercury was a valued strategic metal.

Two craters, which probably erupted within the last 1,500 years and are now filled by alkaline lakes, represent Nevada's youngest known volcanic activity.

A remote, little-known natural arch in granite in the desert of northwestern Nevada.

A lovely park home with a few interesting guests.

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

How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.

Named after an outlaw who used the basin as a hideout.

Under the right conditions, rocks will move across this dry lakebed, leaving trails behind them.

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

A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

One of the best places to dig—some say on the planet—for six different types of chalcedony.

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

An internationally-recognized dark sky sanctuary lies in northern Nevada, near the Oregon line.

Harder layers in colorful sandstone weather out as prominent “fins" and even more intricate and bizarre shapes.

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

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

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