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Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

The oldest standing building in Las Vegas was established by Mormon settlers.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

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

The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.

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

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

A unique shopping and dining park created from old shipping containers and filled with local businesses.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

A bizarre example of collective behavior resulted in thousands of shoe prints in Vegas parking lots.

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

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.

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

Fans have made a utility pole near where the 90s musician was shot into an ersatz memorial.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

Tatsuo Miyajima shares a philosophical appreciation for life with the latest human technologies.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

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

The largest recovered section of Titanic sits in a hotel in Las Vegas.

A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.

Collapsed charcoal kilns in the Spring Mountains of southern Nevada.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.