Places LlibbyScorse Wants to Go

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

A granite primate with a view.

A photogenic rock-art site that is also a popular climbing and canyoneering area.

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

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

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

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.

In the little-known Pine Forest Range in northwestern Nevada, a natural lake of glacial origin.

On the side of Highway 50 East, between Carson City and Dayton, Nevada, sits a giant metal spider made from a vintage Volkswagen Beetle.

An unexpected sinkhole in a desert flat within Gold Butte National Monument.

The largest recovered section of Titanic sits in a hotel in Las Vegas.

A spectacular slot canyon at the northern edge of Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

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

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

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

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

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

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

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

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.