Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

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

This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

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

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

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

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

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

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

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

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

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

The subtle interplay of fire and water is hard to ignore at this remote Jamaican spring.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.