A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

A lovely park home with a few interesting guests.

An ode to one of the dirtiest jobs during the construction of the Boulder Dam.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

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.

Spectacular volcanic cliffs along the Crooked River invite hiking, rock climbing, and photography.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

A land of debatable treasure.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.

These massive concrete foundations and smelter chimney bricks still smell like smoke after a century.

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

The colonial home of Paul Revere during the American Revolution.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.