This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.

The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

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

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

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

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

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

Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.

This historic hotel was once home to Henry David Thoreau and rumored to be haunted by ghosts of fallen soldiers from the American Revolution.

Dedicated to a colonial woman who was hanged for being a Quaker.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

The colonial home of Paul Revere during the American Revolution.

Provincetown's night owls flock to this 52-year-old pizza joint.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

Interactive museum complete with costumed re-enactors and the only known surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.