Places olesenmichael Wants to Go

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

This settlement on the original Transcontinental Railroad began by harvesting timber, but transitioned to a forgotten 19th-century industry: harvesting ice.

An iron monument on the 120th meridian as surveyed, one of only four marking the boundary between Nevada and California north of Lake Tahoe.

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

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

This lucky stone from Ireland is embedded on the corner of a Reno casino to grant luck

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

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

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

The original building of a mining school endowed by one of the barons of the Comstock Lode now houses a museum of earth science and mining history.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.

A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

It may no longer take overnight guests, but the Martin still makes out-of-towners feel at home—just like it has for the past century.

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants