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Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

These markers are used to determine the ground stability of the Strip.

Thousands of glyphs created by an unknown culture decorate the rock formations of this canyon.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

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

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

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

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

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

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

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

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

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

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

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

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

Mine your own precious stones.

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

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

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