A remote, little-known natural arch in granite in the desert of northwestern Nevada.

A lovely park home with a few interesting guests.

This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.

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

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

Under the right conditions, rocks will move across this dry lakebed, leaving trails behind them.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

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

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

One of the best places to dig—some say on the planet—for six different types of chalcedony.

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

An internationally-recognized dark sky sanctuary lies in northern Nevada, near the Oregon line.

Harder layers in colorful sandstone weather out as prominent “fins" and even more intricate and bizarre shapes.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

Drive up a paved road into "Nevada's Yosemite" for exquisite views and mountain hiking in an alpine setting.

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

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

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

At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.

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

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

An unusual slot canyon in the Aztec/Navajo Sandstone has a cross-section like an inverted old-fashioned keyhole.

A land of debatable treasure.

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