This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

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

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

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

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

An iron monument on the 120th meridian as surveyed, one of only four marking the boundary between Nevada and California north of Lake Tahoe.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

Decor at “Nevada’s Oldest Thirst Parlor” includes Raquel Welch's brassiere hanging from a stuffed moose head.

His discovery kicked off the Gold Rush. One of the hands on this commemorative statue points to the spot where he found the precious metal.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

A Native American petroglyph, the site of an emigrants' waystation, and the ruins of an early 20th-century sheep camp are all found at this crossroads.

Despite being a perfectly pleasant place to be, Loyalton can't seem to attract any visitors.

This Taoist temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.