Looking for a Las Vegas day trip? Then I highly recommend you wander out into Nevada's strange desert landscape. The itinerary includes The Area 51 Alien Center, an oddball truck stop, and gift store located along the edge of the forbidden military zone, where we also stop and talk about the famed Nevada Nuclear Test Site and the wild "dawn parties" that were thrown in Vegas to celebrate the atomic age. Next, we grab lunch in Beatty, an old saloon town that boasts a resident population of wild burros. Minutes from Beatty, you'll find the ghost town of Rhyolite, one of the state's most well-preserved gold boom towns. We wander the sun-bleached skeletal remains and hunt for the grave of Mona Belle, a murdered dancer who is rumored to haunt the town. From there we cross the border into California, stopping at The Amargosa Opera House in Death Valley Junction. The Opera House was once a former mining complex and is said to host several (sometimes malevolent) spirits and has been featured on many ghost-hunting shows. Finally, we cross into Death Valley National Park and visit the ruins of the Harmony Borax Works, chase the sunset over the Artist's Palette, have dinner at The Inn at Death Valley, which of course, also claims to have a ghost, and lastly do some epic stargazing/ufo hunting.

If you've explored these locations, I'd love to hear your stories in the comments! Also, always looking for episode suggestions.

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Photo Attribution:
"BOB LAZAR'S HAND SCANNER: A PROP / NOT A PROP" by WIDOMIRAMA, Flickr is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
"1954 - Miss Atomic Test, Las Vegas" by James Vaughan, Flickr is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
"Mona Belle" by James Marvin Phelps, Flickr is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
"Amargosa Opera House Stage" by Joel Bradford, Flickr is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
"Stage View - Amargosa Opera House" by Joel Bradford, Flickr is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
"Interior view of mine and miners in the Mohawk Mine, Goldfield, Nevada, ca.1900-1905 (CHS-5417)" by Ashley Van Haeften, Flickr is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0