Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

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

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

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

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.

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

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

A magnificent church designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.