Places staceynordall74 Wants to Go

The rocks exposed at Valley of Fire State Park also occur in a much less known but equally spectacular area a few miles to the southwest.

A unique shopping and dining park created from old shipping containers and filled with local businesses.

Two well-preserved charcoal kilns survive in a remote part of eastern Nevada.

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

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

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

Take in the beauty of the Milky Way at one of the best sites for stargazing in Nevada—a state with some tough competition.

These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."

An abandoned mine serves as a stark memorial of when mercury was a valued strategic metal.

Welcome to a feel-good American drugstore, in the classic sense of the term.

Colorful outcrops and cliffs just north of Reno provide a scenic backdrop for hiking and mountain biking.

This former mining railroad is one of the best-preserved short lines in North America.

In the little-known Pine Forest Range in northwestern Nevada, a natural lake of glacial origin.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

An unusual waterfall in the Santa Rosa Range, within the Great Basin of Nevada.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

Named after an outlaw who used the basin as a hideout.

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

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

A cosmic pit stop just beyond the notorious Area 51.

An unexpected sinkhole in a desert flat within Gold Butte National Monument.

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.