Places StrangeManStrangeLand Wants to Go

Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.

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

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

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

A spectacular but little-known slot canyon in extreme northern Nevada, with sheer walls nearly 500 feet high and a perennial stream.

An internationally-recognized dark sky sanctuary lies in northern Nevada, near the Oregon line.

Many generations of travelers have passed through the steep, smooth walls of this canyon.

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

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

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

An early 20th-century fire lookout, still in intermittent use, preserves legacy fire-locating equipment.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

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

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

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

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

This larger-than-life portrait in Nevada's silver boomtown is decorated with over 3,000 silver dollars.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

The smallest country in the world.

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

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