At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.

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

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

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

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

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

This picturesque stream was up until recently the site of a ten story mountain of slag and sewage.

An echo chamber with a waterfall wrapped around its base at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

The tunnel under the Capitol Building where Congress takes out its trash.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

This former fire tower found new life as a communications hub complete with a scenic overlook.

The world's longest known cave system.

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.