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About seven miles east of Fallon along the Loneliest Road in America, a short interpretive trail weaves among a rocky canvas etched with prehistoric petroglyphs. About 1.5 miles beyond lies Hidden Cave, a four-millennia-old Paiute-Shoshone storage site, which can be toured with guides from the Churchill County Museum.

Just outside of the magnificent Great Basin National Park and Lehman Caves, archaeologists have determined that the Fremont people created a village on this site, often referred to as Baker Village. Learn more about the Fremont people who lived here thousands of years ago.

Offering a robust look at the history of nuclear testing in southern Nevada and nationwide, there’s no better way to get to know Nuclear Nevada history than at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas.

As a perfect example of turn of the century Nevada mining camps, this #NVGhostTown has managed to survive better than others based on its remote proximity. Live by the Dirt Road Code and explore this four story historic mill site and surrounding structures part of this historic Nevada Ghost Town.

It’s not every day that you unearth a city. But when we did, it was a cultural treasure.

See some of the most remarkable military history in Nevada at the Historic Wendover Air Field museum, where you can tour masterfully restored World War II-era buildings like the Enola Gay B-29 hangar, atomic bomb loading pits, uniforms, medals propellers and more.

Feast your eyes on striking colors and gorgeous symbols at the site of some of the best-preserved pictographs in North America at a primitive campground perched high above stunning Monitor Valley, which unfolds to the horizon.

The Area 51 Store and Alien Cathouse are the stuff extraterrestrial dreams are made of. The Area 51 themed brothel and Area 51 travel center also features a restaurant and gift shop that sells clothing and trinkets to commemorate your trip to the former Area 51 test site.

Nevada State Prison beckons history buffs, ghost hunters, and curious visitors alike to the Silver State’s capital city. Tour this storied site in Carson City to experience what was once Nevada’s only prison and hear haunting tales of spirits who haven’t quite left.

This double-whammy of a park contains what remains of a mountainside-clinging mining town—with 130-year-old buildings, including an impressive 30-stamp mill—standing just a bone’s throw from the highest concentration of the largest fossils of Ichthyosaurs (huge Mesozoic marine reptiles) ever found.