This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

This well-traveled chess park offers scenic views of the pacific and a colorful, eclectic clientele.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

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

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

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

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

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

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

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

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

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

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

"May the force be with you always."

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.