Places TheLabRatKing Wants to Go

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

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

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

Thousands of glyphs created by an unknown culture decorate the rock formations of this canyon.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

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

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

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

The only remains of a 1918 section of Route 30.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.