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 world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

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

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

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

A huge railroad museum with over 100 pieces of rolling stock focusing on the railroad history of Pennsylvania.

The only remaining hotel on the 1860s Henness Pass route over the Sierra Nevada is being restored.

Multiple waterfalls and several historic CCC buildings anchor this state park in Oregon's Willamette Valley.

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

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

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

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

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

A little-known, but surprisingly large waterfall on the Little Truckee River in the northern Sierra Nevada.

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

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

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

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

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.

The steepest tramway in North America provides stunning views of the out-of-the-way Wallowa Mountains in northeastern Oregon.

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

A hidden slot canyon in the southern Nevada desert makes an unexpected oasis and scenic hike.

The second seat of Nye County, still mostly a ghost town, has become a magnet for those looking to live "away from it all."