This Chinese-style quartz sundial was saved in its final hour.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

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

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

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

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

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

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

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

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

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

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

A collection of beautiful crystals shaped like freshly plucked roses.

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.