Places KayteeLouise Wants to Go

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

Home to a forest of whimsical pygmy Coast live oak.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

Almost all that remains of a town dedicated to supporting the First Transcontinental Railroad.

This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

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

An attractive alpine lake at 8,400 feet that is accessible via a paved road.

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

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

This rest area is also home to a remarkable petroglyph site.

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

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

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

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

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

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

This little-used trail winds through the highest mountain range in central Nevada with sections around 10,000 feet.

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

This silver-mining camp has been active intermittently from the 1860s to the present.

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.