A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

This giant tower beacon was a key navigation tool for pilots delivering mail amid the night skies.

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

The longest burning light bulb in the world.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

This memorial honors five journalists who were killed in a mass shooting in 2018, and affirms the importance of the first amendment.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

Like your grandma's attic—if your grandma were a little weirder, extremely well-traveled, and had a great eye for art.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

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

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

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