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

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

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

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

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

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.

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

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.