The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

In 1954, two enormous earthquakes occurred just minutes apart, resulting in prominent scarps that extend for miles along the range fronts.

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

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

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

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

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.

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