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This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

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

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.

A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.