Equipment used to mine silver and lead has been preserved in this almost-ghost town in northern Nye County.

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

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

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

Many believe these images represent interstellar lifeforms.

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

One of the few remaining indigenous petroglyph sites in Nevada.

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

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.

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

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

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

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

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

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.