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

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

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

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

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

A section in the cemetery mostly for circus performers, including victims of the famous 1918 Hammond Circus train wreck.

An infamous former prison is now a biodiverse national park.

A tribute to the Nirvana frontman hides beneath the bridge that was the singer's beloved hangout spot.

This harrowing climb along West Virginia's jagged spires is one of the only Via Ferrata on America's east coast.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

In the mountains of West Virginia is this perfectly preserved Art Deco train station.

This university transit system is a 1970s vision of the future.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

See the nearly two-century-old ruins of pre-railroad America at the former site of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal.

This underground holding cell was forgotten for over a century and rediscovered in the 1960s.

This sculpture is a cross between an observatory and an earth mound to honor the community's rich history.

One of the largest crucifixes in the world stands 55 feet tall in a secluded, wooded area of northern Michigan.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.