Los Angeles, California
Historic Street Lighting Museum
The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.
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Los Angeles, California
The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.
Tucson, Arizona
Previously a hot spring, this park remains a site of unique history, wildlife, and geology.
New York, New York
This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.
New York, New York
A small piece of the composer's New York home lives on in the center of Czech culture in Manhattan.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.
Las Vegas, Nevada
The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.
Las Vegas, Nevada
This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.
Las Vegas, Nevada
One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.
Las Vegas, Nevada
The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.
Las Vegas, Nevada
These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.
Las Vegas, Nevada
This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.
Las Vegas, Nevada
James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
Bronx, New York
The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.
Tonalea, Arizona
The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of the Navajo Nation.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.
Flagstaff, Arizona
A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.
Williams, Arizona
A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.
Sedona, Arizona
Although now a decaying ruin, this stone cabin's history includes several notable figures.
San Francisco, California
Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.