Artifacts from a battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor displayed in the Capitol building of its namesake.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

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

A well-preserved example from a 1920s network of airmail navigation arrows sits near Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.

A unique shopping and dining park created from old shipping containers and filled with local businesses.

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

This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

A museum dedicated to the life and career of the gifted but controversial general.

Traces of General Patton’s Mojave Desert training camps for the North Africa campaign.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Etched into a dry lake bed, this massive directional indicator is accurate without magnets.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.