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A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

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

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

The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

These markers are used to determine the ground stability of the Strip.

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

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

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

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

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.