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

The site of an improbable and ill-fated attempt to use dammed floodwaters for irrigation.

A large, remote national monument highlights the typical geologic structure seen in Nevada.

An unexpected sinkhole in a desert flat within Gold Butte National Monument.

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.

A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.

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

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

One of the best-preserved early 20th-century ore-processing mills in Nevada is maintained in a state of arrested decay.

A volcanic cone that formed over 600 years ago.

The limestone composition of this spectacular arch makes it unique to the region.

Take a dip in the world's largest mineral hot springs pool.

One of the few remaining indigenous petroglyph sites in Nevada.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

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

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

Ruins of the original wooden flume that carried water to Virginia City are still visible high on the Virginia Range.

The precious-metals strikes dating back to the 1860s are now mostly inactive, but this area has become the United States' only domestic source of lithium.

An abandoned mine serves as a stark memorial of when mercury was a valued strategic metal.

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.

Colorful outcrops and cliffs just north of Reno provide a scenic backdrop for hiking and mountain biking.

Members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs still net migrating salmon in the traditional way at this cataract on the Deschutes River.

On the edge of grassland in northeastern Colorado, these rock formations are some of the few remnants of a high plain that has eroded away over millions of years.