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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.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

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

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

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

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

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

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

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

Mine your own precious stones.

An unusual slot canyon in the Aztec/Navajo Sandstone has a cross-section like an inverted old-fashioned keyhole.

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

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

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

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

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.