Virginia City, Nevada
Piper's Opera House
Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Virginia City, Nevada
Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.
Baker, Nevada
A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.
Gerlach, Nevada
A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.
Winnemucca, Nevada
Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants
Fallon, Nevada
This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.
Caliente, Nevada
The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.
Austin, Nevada
This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.
White Pine County, Nevada
A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.
Reno, Nevada
The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.
Austin, Nevada
Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!
Austin, Nevada
This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.
Tonopah, Nevada
This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.
Tonopah, Nevada
In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.
Esmeralda County, Nevada
This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!
Tonopah, Nevada
The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.
Jarbidge, Nevada
One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.
Fallon, Nevada
Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.
Clark County, Nevada
Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.
Las Vegas, Nevada
The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.
Clark County, Nevada
This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.
Las Vegas, Nevada
This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.
Beatty, Nevada
Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.