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Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

An ode to one of the dirtiest jobs during the construction of the Boulder Dam.

These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.

Named after an outlaw who used the basin as a hideout.

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

A remote, little-known natural arch in granite in the desert of northwestern Nevada.

One of the few remaining indigenous petroglyph sites in Nevada.

In 1954, two enormous earthquakes occurred just minutes apart, resulting in prominent scarps that extend for miles along the range fronts.

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

A lovely park home with a few interesting guests.

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

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

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.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

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

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

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

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

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