Places Bartender Bea Wants to Go

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

Formerly frequented by Hollywood stars and now open for tours.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

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

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

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

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

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

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.