A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

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

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

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

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

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

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

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

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

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.