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

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

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

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

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

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).

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

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

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

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

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Jamestown may have been the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, but the colonists made landfall at a lesser known cape.

An oft-overlooked, magically musical monolith that stands majestically between Arlington Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Memorial.

An abandoned textile mill that is now home to art and concerts.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.