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A unique outdoor timepiece at a "clothing-optional" resort.

More than 100 years after his death, the world's largest steer is still attracting crowds.

A set of tall pillars and alcove-like rooms that are significant to the Miami people of Indiana.

This rock formation above the Wabash River is part of an ancient coral reef.

A father’s love is immortalized by a unique dollhouse marking a young girl’s grave site.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

The world champion cow is buried within a historic old asylum.

This solemn facility remembers the cruel effort to compel Native American children to relinquish their culture.

“The Place Where Food Grows Near the River” implements ancestral Indigenous agricultural techniques.

A remote, little-known natural arch in granite in the desert of northwestern Nevada.

Under the right conditions, rocks will move across this dry lakebed, leaving trails behind them.

The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.

Many believe these images represent interstellar lifeforms.

One of the few remaining indigenous petroglyph sites in Nevada.

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

An unusual slot canyon in the Aztec/Navajo Sandstone has a cross-section like an inverted old-fashioned keyhole.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

Thousands of glyphs created by an unknown culture decorate the rock formations of this canyon.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.