American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

A free, canine-friendly alternative watering hole near the more famous Barton Springs.

This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.

Located along historic Route 66, this former gas station has been restored and converted into a museum filled with vintage motorcycles.

On a college campus in the Oklahoma panhandle a museum honors the last piece of the contiguous United States to be classified as No Man's Land.

These little-known sands dunes are a geological anomaly in Saskatchewan's southern prairies.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.