Places avexplore Wants to Go

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

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

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.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

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

This supper club is a slice of old Las Vegas.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

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

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

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

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

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.

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

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

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

This nature mural exists to protect the surrounding environment and its own canvas from destruction.

The remains of a large iron mill that once stood in the remote woods of northern Maine.

The “Grand Canyon of Maine” is a three-mile gorge full of striking geological features.

Floor-to-ceiling frescoes by local art students cover the interior of a nearly 200-year-old church.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.