Places Andrea Leigh Wants to Go

Colorful sedimentary rock layers provide opportunities both for hiking and photography.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

A small space-exploration exhibit hidden in a hotel.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

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

A retired schoolteacher in suburban Nevada transformed his front yard into a paleontological menagerie.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

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

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

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

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

This mostly abandoned shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

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

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.