An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

A private Las Vegas horse ranch adorned with whimsical artwork.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

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

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

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

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

A chaotic collection of coin-operated slot machines designed to delight and disturb in equal measure.

Keep a lookout for replicas of this wooden soldier hiding in plain sight all around town.