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A spectacular slot canyon at the northern edge of Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

A remote trail traverses the little-known Gearhart Mountains of southern Oregon.

The sump of the landlocked Carson River is a haven for wildlife.

Bodie's 20th-century rival was a paragon of respectability and calm—but the mines eventually ran dry.

A spring and an enigmatic cabin lie in a ponderosa pine forest in the heart of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.

Oregon's only closed-basin hypersaline lake, an important stopover for migrating waterfowl, is in danger of drying up completely.

Stay in an old lookout cabin atop Oregon's spectacular Winter Ridge.

This spectacular fault escarpment, a popular hang-glider launch point, extends some 30 miles long and towers about 2,500 feet over the valley floors to the west.

An abandoned early 20th-century gold mine in a spectacular setting overlooking Bridgeport Valley and the Sierra Nevada.

The original building of a mining school endowed by one of the barons of the Comstock Lode now houses a museum of earth science and mining history.

Well-preserved ruins in the Pine Grove Hills of western Nevada.

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

Spectacular volcanic cliffs along the Crooked River invite hiking, rock climbing, and photography.

A large wave-cut shelter, a major archeological site, overlooks the dry basin of Winnemucca Lake.

Snapshots of late 19th and early 20th century Americana, focused on life on the plains, are displayed in this museum.

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

This vintage short line in Amish country runs passenger steam train excursions and still hauls freight.

Nevada's second-newest state park offers camping, fishing, hiking, and river float trips.

This trailside hut was built in the late 1930s as a memorial to a young hiker.

This extraordinary model train layout covers over 1,700 square feet, with multiple trains running simultaneously.

The first project by the Bureau of Reclamation illustrates both the upsides and downsides of reclamation.

It bustled briefly in the late 1860s, but little is now left at this stage stop on the Hamilton/Pioche Stage and Freight Road

A well-preserved example from a 1920s network of airmail navigation arrows sits near Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.

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