Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

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

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

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

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

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

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

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

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

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

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

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

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.

Decor at “Nevada’s Oldest Thirst Parlor” includes Raquel Welch's brassiere hanging from a stuffed moose head.

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