Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

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

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

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

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.

Most comprehensive museum in America devoted to one ethnic group.

A winged-helmed, sword-brandishing tribute to German Americans.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

The oldest still-existing mosque in the United States sits in a remote prairie in North Dakota.

The only retired U.S. nuclear missile silo that is open to the public.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

This museum honors a unique musical instrument of African origins, whose sound defines a city.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

A futuristic climate change study is nestled deep within this public land.