This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

A land of debatable treasure.

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

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

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

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

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

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

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

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

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

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.