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If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.

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

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

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

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.

A rancher expanding a natural spring for his cattle came up with bones – lots and lots of them.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

This record-setting hydraulic dam in the Montana badlands was one of FDR's most ambitious public works.

The shortest river in America flows for just 201 feet.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.