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

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

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

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

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

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

A land of debatable treasure.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.