Places snailhugs Wants to Go

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

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

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

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

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

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.