Places risingsperanza Wants to Go

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

An off-the-beaten path cave with an underground lake.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

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

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

Formerly frequented by Hollywood stars and now open for tours.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

This arts and culture cultural center explores the diverse cultural heritage of the American West.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

Thousands of glyphs created by an unknown culture decorate the rock formations of this canyon.

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

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

Many generations of travelers have passed through the steep, smooth walls of this canyon.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.