Places Edited by slgwv

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

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

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

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

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

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

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

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

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

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

The remains of the dam that unleashed a 15-foot wall of water on Denver.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.