Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

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

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

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

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

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

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

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

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

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

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.