A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

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

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

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

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

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

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

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

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

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

This massive statue of John Muir on the side of a California highway was carved from a redwood tree.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

Celebrating the accomplishments of Black firefighters in Los Angeles.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Making Ice Cream Hip Since 2008.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

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