A desert journey through atomic history.

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

This was the first ever National Lakeshore, established in 1966.

Collapsed charcoal kilns in the Spring Mountains of southern Nevada.

It's been called “Detroit’s largest art object.”

It's an incredibly beautiful city public space, with spacious rooms to study and admire the artwork.

Ride an over one hundred year old carrousel, one of the few original Dentzel Carrousels remaining in the country.

Ruins of this late 19th-century mining camp are right on Nevada State Route 266

A junction in the Death Valley backcountry marked by old crankshafts

A model of what was supposed to be Domino's Pizza's colossal, Wrightian headquarters

A seven-foot-tall cast concrete Native American Chief stands on the south railing of the historic Commerce Street Bridge, commissioned in 1914.

Giant steel and concrete dinosaurs near Route 66 invite passerbys into a mineral shop.

This cultural center showcases what may be the oldest ongoing community in all of North America.

Whether or not you take the 72-ounce steak challenge, there’s plenty of history, fun and Texas-style food at this legendary stop along Route 66.

The trout that grew a winter coat is mounted in its Colorado hometown.

A 17-foot-tall cutout of the Texas-born actor stands alongside the highway.

An unusual double cinder cone with a bent oval crater, in the Lunar Crater Volcanic Field.

A retired schoolteacher in suburban Nevada transformed his front yard into a paleontological menagerie.

Boats and fish both find their way through this massive hydroelectric structure.

This 19th-century outhouse has been recognized as a historic site.

The most extravagant car collection features a Batmobile, Liberace's mirror ball-ed Rolls Royce, and a stunt car from 'The Fast and the Furious.'

The birthplace of Las Vegas is now preserved as a historic and natural area.

The birthplace of a tobacco empire.

This enormous fiberglass cow near Death Valley National Park once graced a casino roof in Las Vegas.