Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

The original building of a mining school endowed by one of the barons of the Comstock Lode now houses a museum of earth science and mining history.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

This three-dimensional brick mural is the longest of its kind in the United States.