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

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

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

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

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

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

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

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

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

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

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

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

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