Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

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

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

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

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

A private Las Vegas horse ranch adorned with whimsical artwork.

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

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

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.

The magic's in the hole!

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.