US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

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

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

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.

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

Formerly frequented by Hollywood stars and now open for tours.

A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.

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

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

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

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

A private Las Vegas horse ranch adorned with whimsical artwork.

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

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.