If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

A remote desert lookout offers unparalleled views of the California badlands for those who brave the trek.

It would be a crime to miss it.

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

Hand-powered race of alternative forms of transportation.

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”