The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

The smallest country in the world.

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

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

Become a prohibition rebel.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

The Old Man of the Mountain’s less-famous, but still beloved little brother is said to resemble a leader of the Abenaki tribe.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.