Places sugarbomb Wants to Go

Red rock "fangs" jut out of the desert near the Extraterrestrial Highway.

A perfectly preserved small-town pharmacy and soda fountain that opened in the early 20th century and closed in the 1980s.

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.

The precious-metals strikes dating back to the 1860s are now mostly inactive, but this area has become the United States' only domestic source of lithium.

This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.

How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.

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

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

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

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

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

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

An attractive alpine lake at 8,400 feet that is accessible via a paved road.

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

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

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

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

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

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

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

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.

Drive up a paved road into "Nevada's Yosemite" for exquisite views and mountain hiking in an alpine setting.

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.