The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

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

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

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

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

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

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

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

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

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

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.