Las Vegas, Nevada
Bugsy Siegel Monument
An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.
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Las Vegas, Nevada
An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.
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
Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.
Las Vegas, Nevada
This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
Copalis Crossing, Washington
This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.
John Day, Oregon
This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.
Eureka, California
Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.
Elma, Washington
From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.
Toledo, Washington
These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.
Orick, California
Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.
Klamath, California
These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.
Mitchell, Oregon
Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.
The Dalles, Oregon
This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.
Warrenton, Oregon
100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.
Astoria, Oregon
This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.
Dufur, Oregon
The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.
Seaside, Oregon
This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.
Portland, Oregon
This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.