Places Seabiscuit Wants to Go

A professional special effects makeup artist’s collection of horror creatures and one-of-a-kind recreations on display in downtown Boulder City.

This little-used trail winds through the highest mountain range in central Nevada with sections around 10,000 feet.

A remote, little-known natural arch in granite in the desert of northwestern Nevada.

A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.

Named after an outlaw who used the basin as a hideout.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

An attractive alpine lake at 8,400 feet that is accessible via a paved road.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

One of the few remaining indigenous petroglyph sites in Nevada.

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

An internationally-recognized dark sky sanctuary lies in northern Nevada, near the Oregon line.

Harder layers in colorful sandstone weather out as prominent “fins" and even more intricate and bizarre shapes.

An unexpected sinkhole in a desert flat within Gold Butte National Monument.

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

Drive up a paved road into "Nevada's Yosemite" for exquisite views and mountain hiking in an alpine setting.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

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

A spectacular but little-known slot canyon in extreme northern Nevada, with sheer walls nearly 500 feet high and a perennial stream.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

These markers are used to determine the ground stability of the Strip.

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.