Places anomallama Wants to Go

A professional special effects makeup artist’s collection of horror creatures and one-of-a-kind recreations on display in downtown Boulder City.

At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

A tiny slice shop hides down an unmarked hallway in a Las Vegas casino.

Fans have made a utility pole near where the 90s musician was shot into an ersatz memorial.

The birthplace of Las Vegas is now preserved as a historic and natural area.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

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

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

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

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

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

A spring and an enigmatic cabin lie in a ponderosa pine forest in the heart of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.

This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.

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

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.

Kitschy nautical-themed bar has offered mermaid shows and underwater ballet since 1956.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.