Places The Detour Effect Wants to Go

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

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

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

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

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

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

This rest area is also home to a remarkable petroglyph site.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

An unusual slot canyon in the Aztec/Navajo Sandstone has a cross-section like an inverted old-fashioned keyhole.

The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

A hidden slot canyon in the southern Nevada desert makes an unexpected oasis and scenic hike.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

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

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

A remarkably well-preserved stage stop from the late 19th century in a remote part of Nevada.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.

After decades of research and rumors, Little Zion Church was proven to be his final resting place.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.