These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

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

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

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

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

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

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

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

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.