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Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

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

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

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

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

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

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

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

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

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

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

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

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

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

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

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

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.