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An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

Its 27 graveyards represent the many nationalities and ethnic groups that voyaged to this wilderness in the late 19th century.

This landmark is a central figure in the Nez Perce origin story.

One of the few remaining water-driven tool shops, originally built in 1911.

Along the Outback Scenic Byway, adjacent to hot springs, this human-made geothermal feature takes unexplained breaks.

A well-preserved set of ruins not far from Lovelock.

Red ocher pictographs survive in this tufa rock shelter on the shore of an ancient lake.

Once the largest town in eastern Yuba County now sits abandoned.

One of the last "timber railroads" in the United States was finally abandoned in 1957.

The only remaining hotel on the 1860s Henness Pass route over the Sierra Nevada is being restored.

A mine in the Sierra Nevada that produced nothing but barren quartz.

A Native American petroglyph, the site of an emigrants' waystation, and the ruins of an early 20th-century sheep camp are all found at this crossroads.

A difficult trail leads to interesting ruins in a remote canyon in the Toiyabe Range.