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This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

The rocks exposed at Valley of Fire State Park also occur in a much less known but equally spectacular area a few miles to the southwest.

A photogenic rock-art site that is also a popular climbing and canyoneering area.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

A spectacular slot canyon at the northern edge of Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

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

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

The most extravagant car collection features a Batmobile, Liberace's mirror ball-ed Rolls Royce, and a stunt car from 'The Fast and the Furious.'

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

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.