This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

This school building was an extravagant show of wealth for a boomtown that mostly faded in the following decade.

A desert journey through atomic history.

This former mining railroad is one of the best-preserved short lines in North America.

A cosmic pit stop just beyond the notorious Area 51.

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

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

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

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

A land of debatable treasure.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Welcome to a feel-good American drugstore, in the classic sense of the term.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.