Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

A land of debatable treasure.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

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.

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

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

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

The smallest country in the world.

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.

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

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

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.