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A failed utopia, shut down by a more legitimate nation.

A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.

The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

This tiny Hawaiian island is slowly coming back to life after being bombed during naval training exercises.

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

Once home to over 8,000 exiled Hawaiians suffering from Hansen's Disease.

This ancient Hawaiian henge may have been an early star chart.

A theme park made of glass, from the gleaming books on the shelves to the crystal fish in the mirror lake.

Quirky outsider art transforms this garden shop into a little stone fantasyland.

South Korea's only sex-themed park.

This Canadian exhibit with claims as the largest one man taxidermy collection in North America.

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.