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A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

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

A lovely park home with a few interesting guests.

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

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

At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.

This Stonehenge-inspired solar calendar stands alongside a landfill, in the middle of the Nevada desert.

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

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

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

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

This mostly abandoned shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

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

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

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

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

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

An abandoned incline railway site is now a green space with six acres of trails connecting hilltop neighborhoods.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.