This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

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

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

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

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

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

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

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

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

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

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

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

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.