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

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.

The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art.

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

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Mine your own precious stones.

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

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This unique zoo is the only place in the world where you can see all 15 species of crane.

The only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed structure in the architect's hometown.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.