Places Sidetrakn Wants to Go

An Idaho legend carved out a cave village with his own two hands.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

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

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

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

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

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

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

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

The smallest country in the world.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

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

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.