Places risingsperanza Wants to Go

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

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

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

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.

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

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

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

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

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

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

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

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.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

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