A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

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.

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

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

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

Mine your own precious stones.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

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

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

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

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