Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

This is one really big nut.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Nevada's second-newest state park offers camping, fishing, hiking, and river float trips.

The first project by the Bureau of Reclamation illustrates both the upsides and downsides of reclamation.

This larger-than-life portrait in Nevada's silver boomtown is decorated with over 3,000 silver dollars.

The sump of the landlocked Carson River is a haven for wildlife.

One of the best-preserved early 20th-century ore-processing mills in Nevada is maintained in a state of arrested decay.

The second seat of Nye County, still mostly a ghost town, has become a magnet for those looking to live "away from it all."

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

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

Ghost hunters have fueled up at this diner for more than a century.

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.

A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.

The current Eureka County Courthouse replaced an all-wooden structure that had previously been an ice-skating rink.

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

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