Places randywoakes Wants to Go

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

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

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

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

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

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

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

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

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

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

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

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

Mine your own precious stones.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.