Once a famous outpost for purchasing saddles and spurs, this museum preserves the art, craft, and style of the American cowboy.

The original building of a mining school endowed by one of the barons of the Comstock Lode now houses a museum of earth science and mining history.

Take in the beauty of the Milky Way at one of the best sites for stargazing in Nevada—a state with some tough competition.

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

Ruins of the original wooden flume that carried water to Virginia City are still visible high on the Virginia Range.

This massive solar generating facility in the Nevada desert has been plagued by difficulties.

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."

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

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

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

A land of debatable treasure.

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

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

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

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

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

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

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

This larger-than-life portrait in Nevada's silver boomtown is decorated with over 3,000 silver dollars.