A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

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

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

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

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

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.

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Make it an offering.

Supposedly Satanic numbers adorn this preserved submarine sail.

These falls, sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," still put on a good show at the right time of year.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

During its heyday, 72 one-ton buckets from this dredge bore into the Powder River excavating vast gold deposits.