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San Jose, California

The Winchester Mystery House

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
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Los Angeles, California

The Museum of Death

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.
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Los Angeles, California

The Last Bookstore

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.
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Los Angeles, California

The Echo Park Time Travel Mart

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.
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San Francisco, California

Secret Tiled Staircase

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.
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San Francisco, California

Magowan's Infinite Mirror Maze

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.
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San Francisco, California

The Wave Organ

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
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Silver City, Nevada

American Flats

permanently closed
An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.
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Las Vegas, Nevada

Lonnie Hammargren's House

permanently closed
This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.
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Nye County, Nevada

Easy Chair Crater

An unusual double cinder cone with a bent oval crater, in the Lunar Crater Volcanic Field.
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Winnemucca, Nevada

The Martin Hotel

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.
Sponsored by Travel Nevada
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Gabbs, Nevada

Gabbs Mine

The only United States mine for magnesium carbonate has been operating continuously since the 1930s.
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Nevada

Delamar Dry Lake

This dry lake bed was once an emergency landing strip for military and experimental aircraft.
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Lund, Nevada

Water Gap

The site of an improbable and ill-fated attempt to use dammed floodwaters for irrigation.
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Etna, Nevada

Meadow Valley Wash

Much of the spectacular canyon followed over a century ago by the Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad is now accessible to cars.
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Lux, Nevada

Thompson Smelter

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

Davidson Family Gravesite

The remote graves of a Scottish family who died of thirst while attempting to reach St. George.
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Smith Valley, Nevada

Wilson Canyon

An improbable water gap where the West Walker River, paralleled by a state highway, crosses the Singatse Range between Smith and Mason Valleys.
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Henderson, Nevada

Heritage Street

Clark County Museum has created an entire street of historically important buildings relocated from various other locations within the county.
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Fallon, Nevada

Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge

The sump of the landlocked Carson River is a haven for wildlife.
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Pioche, Nevada

Bristol Well

Beehive charcoal kilns and slag deposits mark this late 19th century camp centered on a smelter.
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Willow Grove, Nevada

Washburn's Station

It bustled briefly in the late 1860s, but little is now left at this stage stop on the Hamilton/Pioche Stage and Freight Road
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Las Vegas, Nevada

‘The Big Piece’

The largest recovered section of Titanic sits in a hotel in Las Vegas.
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Ely, Nevada

Economy Drug & Old Fashioned Soda Fountain

Welcome to a feel-good American drugstore, in the classic sense of the term.
Sponsored by Travel Nevada
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