In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

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

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

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

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

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.

"Girl in a Wetsuit" is what happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100 year old copyright.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

This isthmus in the Bahamas narrowly separates the roiling Atlantic from the cool Bight of Eleuthera.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.