Places obstakel Wants to Go

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

One man's journey to return a stone to its point of origin after 200,000 years.

The birthplace of Las Vegas is now preserved as a historic and natural area.

A spring and an enigmatic cabin lie in a ponderosa pine forest in the heart of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

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

A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

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

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

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

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

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

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

The largest recovered section of Titanic sits in a hotel in Las Vegas.

This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.

Nothing to see here.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

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

A bizarre example of collective behavior resulted in thousands of shoe prints in Vegas parking lots.

At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.