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

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.

Population: 1.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.

The same security that protects our nukes accidentally protected a gentle herd of antelope.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

A devilishly named gorge that was a sign of salvation for many pioneers.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.